Proton therapy patient stories
Patient Stories
At Hopkins she learned the tumor resided on her optic nerve and it was inoperable. She needed radiation treatment to shrink the active tumor. Without treatment, she would continue to lose her vision and was told the loss was irreversible.
Kris is from MA and was diagnosed with Stage 2 Grade 3 Invasive Ductal Carcinoma on Jan 20, 2014. Kris chose Mass General Hospital to receive all her breast cancer care.
On October 6th, 2015, Kate Weissman received the call that every cancer survivor remembers; you have stage 2B cervical cancer. Kate’s story is inspiring, courageous and frustrating. After 30 rounds of photon radiation and six rounds of chemotherapy treatments, six months later in the spring of 2016, Kate had a PET/CT scan and her doctors found the cervical cancer had spread to two of her paraaortic lymph nodes. She needed more cancer treatment.