Thoracic Oncology

Esophageal Cancer Patient Thrives After Challenging Combination Treatment

Kathy Wilmoth will never forget Halloween, 2007. The 57-year-old Eastern Shore resident had spent a summer going to multiple doctor visits trying to pin down the cause of her loss of weight, chest discomfort and inability to eat. She finally saw a gastroenterologist who did an upper endoscopy and took biopsies of her esophagus...

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...

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...

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.