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.
Read MoreAt 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.
Read MoreKris 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.
Read MoreJust after surgery in mid March, Denise’s surgeon called her and said they found cancer in her lymph node. She said: “You will need radiation treatment and we will find out if you need chemotherapy when we receive your oncotype scores in early April.”
Read MoreThis was Nancy’s second time with cancer and the type and location of her cancer was unique. Proton radiation served its purpose of being precise to shrink Nancy’s tumor and preserve the surrounding healthy tissue.
Read MoreHe was treated with proton 40 proton therapy sessions at the Loma Linda University Center in 2006.
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