Patient Stories
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- Emily Crawford Talks About Her Cancer Experience and Sisters Who Are Tough (SWAT)
- In Honor of Heather Miller
- Heather Miller said of her breast cancer diagnosis, “I gave cancer my tears for one night, but after that I decided that cancer was not taking any more from me or from my family.” She adopted the slogan “Fightin’ Feisty” as she prepared to do battle with the disease.
- Tonya Williams
- Tonya Williams of Charlotte is the lucky 13th child in her family. When she needed a match for her bone marrow transplant, all of her brothers and sisters were tested, and the last two brothers were matches.
- Katy Sims
- When Katy Sims enters the first-year class at the UNC School of Medicine this fall, she will already have extensive medical experience. Her decision to become a doctor came as she was undergoing treatment for Ewing sarcoma, a type of childhood cancer.
- Debra Holmes
- When Debra Holmes lost her hair during chemotherapy, she explained it to her two grandchildren, ages five and nine, in a novel way that she felt they could understand. “I told them that what I was taking was like a super drug and it was so powerful I lost my hair.”
- Katerina Gmitter
- Katerina Gmitter characterizes her breast cancer experience: “Treatment ends, your hair grows back, your eyebrows grow back, but it changes you forever.” Katerina was diagnosed at 32, four months after giving birth to her daughter.
- In honor of Michael McAtee
- When UNC student Michael McAtee’s GPA plummeted from a cumulative 3.7 to a 1.2, he tried to explain to his academic advisors that something was amiss.
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- Michael McAtee
- Heather and Gordon Miller
- The Miller Family
- Marcia Gold and Lou Eisenberg
- Marcia Gold Kaye and Lou Eisenberg - high school sweethearts who reunited after 55 years! Marcia is on the right and Lou is the man in the middle of the photo who is laughing.
