Patient Experiences

In 2002, Andrew “Andy” Matrone began experiencing fatigue, muscle cramps, visual problems, nausea, muscle tremors and memory loss. His primary care provider noticed low iron levels and referred [...]

Ed Evon – a husband, father and cancer patient – is being treated for stage-four metastatic prostate cancer. Showing no symptoms at all, he learned he had cancer in 2017 during a routine yearly [...]

When students come into Ms. Marlowe’s classroom, like many students returning to school, they take precautions. While COVID protocols are something many are familiar to now, her students and [...]

Pam Davis finds joy in family, exuding positivity in the midst of cancer treatment   Of all the things 2020 has taken, it couldn’t take away the joy Pam Davis experienced watching her 26-year-old [...]

Josephine Wright has been a part of our family at Personalized Hematology/Oncology for more than a decade. Having first met Dr. Castillos and his team during her father’s treatment, she became a [...]

Like most of us, Karie Hodges started 2020 filled with hope for the new decade. She was about to turn 30, and with her wedding date set for the fall, 2020 was destined to be a landmark year. Even [...]

As a golf touring pro, Steve Sewell has lived all over the world, consulting on every aspect of golf. One of his highlights was living in Egypt where he worked on golf properties before moving [...]

What was your diagnosis, and when were you diagnosed? I was diagnosed with stage four follicular lymphoma in June of 2015, and I have not worked since the treatment. Technically, I could still go [...]

Paris Lynch was diagnosed in May 2015 with stage one breast cancer, which was an infiltrating ductal carcinoma on her left breast. She thanks God that the tumor was found during her routine [...]

Pam Day, a retired school teacher, was diagnosed with stage four hepatocellular carcinoma in June 2013. When she was first diagnosed, it was the size of an orange, and now she is in complete [...]