April 23, 2015
Roger Johnson
Siler City native Roger Johnson knows the value of personalized medicine. After being diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2013, physicians at UNC sequenced his tumor to better understand the genetics driving his cancer.
Category: Patient Stories
April 20, 2015
Nancy Raasch
Fifteen years ago, Nancy Raasch was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. Then, in 2009, came multiple myeloma. Despite these malignancies, she refuses to let cancer define her.
April 6, 2015
Danny Talbott
Carolina legend Danny Talbott performed at the highest level on both the football field and baseball diamond during his years as a Tar Heel. Since 2010, he’s been back in Chapel Hill, battling the toughest opponent he’s faced: multiple myeloma. He can’t imagine going anywhere else to do it.
April 6, 2015
Tonya Caldwell & Crystal LaSonde
Tonya Caldwell and Crystal LaSonde were both diagnosed at a young age with cervical cancer, a disease that is known to leave women unable to bear children later in life. Thanks to a groundbreaking surgical procedure performed here at UNC Lineberger, both women are now mothers of happy, healthy baby boys.
March 20, 2015
Ashley Burnette
Ashley Burnette is an 11-year-old cancer survivor and Patient Ambassador at the North Carolina Children's Hospital. On August 27th of 2010, she was diagnosed with Stage 4 Neuroblastoma and later was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. All along the way, she never stopped smiling.
March 20, 2015
Sylvia Hatchell
“You don’t have the choice that you have cancer," says UNC Women's Basketball Coach and leukemia survivor Sylvia Hatchell. "But you have the choice in how you deal with it.”
March 20, 2015
Lynn Latchford
In early 2013, while pursuing a doctoral degree in theological anthropology at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, Lynn Latchford began to experience some puzzling symptoms. Routine academic tasks suddenly became difficult. Mental fogginess was accompanied by fatigue, weight gain and changes in her sense of smell, taste and hearing. Doctors attributed her symptoms to a chronic thyroid disorder and stress.
March 20, 2015
Sherdinia Thompson-Dunn
Leading an active life can help women treated for breast cancer live longer and healthier lives. Just ask Sherdinia Thompson-Dunn of Carrboro, NC. Thompson-Dunn, a 1967 graduate of UNC, found some pleasant surprises when she began a self-directed walking program in October 2013 following treatment for breast cancer.
March 20, 2015
Tomma Hargraves
Eight years after her diagnosis, lung cancer survivor Tomma Hargraves is training to become a lay navigator with UNC Lineberger, giving back to the hospital that she credits with saving her life.
March 11, 2015
Lowry Caudill
Lowry Caudill, PhD is the chair of the UNC Board of Trustees. He is also a prostate cancer survivor. On January 24, 2015, Caudill told his story before 300 UNC Lineberger supporters at the 28th Annual Lineberger Club Lunch and Basketball Game.