Medication disposal: How to get rid of unused or expired medicine
Cancer treatment and its side effects can result in a lot of medications. But what should you do once you or a loved one no longer need these medications or they're past their expiration date?
It's important to dispose of these medications properly, whether theyâre chemotherapy drugs (such as vismodegib), high-potency pain relievers (many considered controlled substances), or drugs that target specific defects...
Specialized orthopedic oncology procedures preserve patientsâ active lifestyles
Youâd never guess that Luke Adkins is a cancer survivor by looking at him.
But the 24-year-old paramedic had his entire left knee and...
Throat cancer survivor chooses clinical trial to âhelp someone else'
Chuck Caldwell was in Europe with his wife in September 2015 when his throat started bothering him. At the time, he chalked up the soreness...
Lung cancer survivor credits clinical trial for life
Georgia Dominickâs journey to MD Anderson began with unusual chest pains on what had begun as a normal August day in 2014.
âIt was very strange,â she says. âIt started kind of near my heart, and felt like when I had pleurisy, which Iâve had a couple of times because I also have asthma. But I went to work that day feeling perfect, and it just kept getting worse and worse.â
Georgia went to see her local internist immediately...
Clinical trials give hope to non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia survivor
George Miller is an athlete and a die-hard marathon runner, so he was shocked when he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2008....
HER2+ breast cancer survivor shares hope
When Dorothy Paterson discovered a lump in her right breast while showering in 1998, she didnât believe it at first.
âI tried to wish...