My 28 year old sister (Tech grad and former Zeta president) was diagnosed with Stage 3 sarcoma near her pancreas in June. The diagnosis came after having stomach issues for a year and her PCP determining her gallbladder failed. Upon reviewing her scan, the radiologist missed her tumor until the PCP begged him to look again. He found the 6.5 cm tumor touching her pancreas and it was biopsied. Of course at 28 we all assumed it was benign. It wasn’t. She moved from Denver to Houston to live with my parents and began chemo at MD Anderson. After 12/14 treatments chemo was cancelled due to low liver function. The sarcoma dept decided she needed to have Whipple Surgery. (10 year Whipple survivors get their picture on the wall at MD...there is a lot of wall space available). The Whipple surgeon at MD is one of the best in the world and does between 80-90 of these a year. On Wednesday she went under the knife for a 6-8 hour surgery. Only 3 hours in the surgeon walked into the waiting room with a look of disbelief. He told us for the first time in his career, he could not find ANY cancer! He removed a small amount of scar tissue and spent the last 2 hours searching for cancer. He also could not explain how or why this happened. My sister is now cancer free and avoided life threatening surgery!
I couldn’t resist sharing her story to RRS. She is a wonderful person and a great Red Raider!
I couldn’t resist sharing her story to RRS. She is a wonderful person and a great Red Raider!
