“You Helped Wendy Beat Cancer, and Now You and She are Teammates.” Wendy was only 23 when she was diagnosed with cancer. As a survivor, she joins you in giving to the CARTI Foundation so others can triumph, too! No 23-year-old expects cancer. Wendy Wells sure didn’t. She thought she had some kind of infection. … Continued
While attending a play, Keisha Pittman felt a pain in her neck, a temporary discomfort she attributed to straining to see the action on stage. It wasn’t until intermission when she looked in the mirror that she saw the left side of her neck was noticeably swollen. The next morning she visited her primary care … Continued
SCENES FROM A SUPPORT GROUP Story by Steve SpencerSTUTTGART, ARKANSAS. PRIVATE ROOM IN EL CANAVERAL MEXICAN GRILL. AFTER WORK. THE SECOND MONDAY NIGHT OF SEPTEMBER. EIGHTEEN WOMEN BETWEEN THE AGES OF 35 AND SOME NUMBER BIGGER THAN THAT BUT LET’S NOT GET TOO SPECIFIC ARE CASUALLY GATHERED AROUND THREE LONG TABLES PULLED TOGETHER…CHEMOSABE SISTERS SCENE … Continued
When does a cancer patient become a cancer survivor? “As far as we are concerned, every cancer patient is considered a cancer survivor from the very first moment of their initial diagnosis,” says Lawrence Mendelsohn, M.D., a medical oncologist/hematologist and medical director at CARTI in Little Rock. CARTI is one of thousands of cancer care … Continued
