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Thoracic Oncology

Patient and Family Education

Patient Success Stories

Leon Burns

Silver Spring Man's Lung Cancer Treated as Part of Clinical Trial on Combination Therapies

Fifty-three-year-old Leon Burns, a Silver Spring businessman, was diagnosed with pneumonia in November 2005. He began to question his diagnosis when he didn’t get better, and follow-up X-rays of his lungs showed no improvement...

Ilene Goodman

Grateful Cancer Patient Dedicates Herself to Helping Others

Pregnant with her first child, 24-year-old Ilene Goodman was happily preparing for parenthood and looking forward to being a new mom. Around her seventh month, she began to be bothered by swelling in her feet and legs and difficulty breathing...

Rich Dobrokowski

Grateful Cancer Patient Dedicates Herself to Helping Others

This short video provides an overview of Trilogy, an advanced radiation therapy technology used at the UMGCC for treating cancer. It explains how Trilogy works to precisely target tumors, and features a lung cancer patient, Rich Dobrokowski, who was treated with Trilogy.


This page was last updated on: September 16, 2009.