It was the middle of May. My son and his wife had just had their first baby — my first grandchild — on Mother's Day. I hadn’t been feeling well and got dizzy every time I went to stand up.
"They said I wasn't a candidate for surgery, and that I needed three more months of chemo, which I couldn't tolerate. They made me feel like I wouldn’t live very long. When I asked what I should do, they told me I should call hospice."
Then Romaine’s primary doctor sent her to Roswell Park for a second opinion.
Genetic mutations passed down from generation to generation in this group are responsible for higher-than-average rates of cancer. Learn how a mother and daughter are managing their risk.
Only when her doctors told her she was going to die without one did Rachel understand how critical a bone marrow transplant was. Just two months before hearing these words, the RN had rarely been sick a day in her life.
At Roswell Park, 2019 was another year of progress in our fight against cancer as we celebrated every victory made toward new cures. We continue to set the bar high as a member of an elite group of cancer centers.
When 11-year-old Ella Beach was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) on Valentine’s Day in February 2018, her family had been hoping it was something else.
Once he was diagnosed, Garry says, “the plan was to go to Roswell and fight it. I am not a quitter; I keep moving, and I won’t give up. Fight, fight, fight: that’s the name of the game.”
I have never met them, nor have I ever thanked them for their part in my survival. And yet so much of that day and my treatment in the following months depended on their expertise.
Kidney cancer kills about 14,000 people every year. It is especially deadly when it is found in the late stages. Scott was first diagnosed with kidney cancer in January of 2011 and given only 10 months to live...that was over 8 years ago.
