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When Craig McMillan found a lump in his left breast while showering in September 2004, he didn’t think much of it. The 59-year-old insurance agent from Quincy, Fla., assumed it was a harmless, fatty cyst like others he had had. But the decision to mention it to his family physician during his annual physical may have saved his life. “My wife and I were extremely shocked to learn I had breast cancer,” McMillan says. “Like most men, I thought it was primarily a women’s disease, so I was in denial and didn’t think it could happen to me.”

Here's an excerpt of Lindsay Wood's story, which she submitted on the Share Your Mayo Clinic Story open comment thread. ...On my second visit to Mayo ...

Editor's note: This article is from the Winter 2009 issue of the Sharing Mayo Clinic Newsletter. Using the measles virus and gene therapy to treat ovarian cancer Dixie Manley, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, was the first human to receive a reengineered measles virus to target her ovarian cancer. In July 2004, she participated in a Phase I clinical trial, receiving the virus in Mayo’s Clinical Research Unit. One of the goals of the trial was to study dosage safety and timing. Manley received six cycles of medication with very minimal side effects. “I knew from the beginning that this research might help me a great deal, or it might not help at all, but I felt that if it didn’t help me, it could possibly lead to something that might help other people,” Manley says.

Darren Rosenberg was one of the first patients (he's also a Mayo employee) to share his story through Sharing Mayo Clinic. So when KTTC TV wanted ...

Shortly after he was born in early 2008, Trevor King was diagnosed with Long QT Syndrome, a condition that could cause sudden cardiac death. He may be the youngest patient ever to get a pacemaker-defibrillator, a device that sends an electric shock to the heart when it detects a potentially life-threatening heart rhythm. But in the months following his birth and diagnosis, Trevor's mother Rhonda began participating in an online community for patients with Long QT and their families, and she began to question whether he had been correctly diagnosed. Here's the first part of her story of deciding to seek a second opinion for Trevor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFYiaMuZY4g Below is Part II of Trevor's story, as Mrs. King describes what happened when she and her husband arrived in Rochester, Minn. to see Dr. Michael Ackerman:

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Update 1/26/09: ABC's World News Tonight ran a story on Jan. 24 featuring Tanya. You can view and read it here. KSTP-TV (Minneapolis) and its sister ...

  Imagine a hospital room in the cardiac unit, with a patient, her family, doctors and nurses, all discussing the patient’s status and treatment options. So who are the experts in the room? Are they the doctors and nurses who have studied, practiced and devoted their lives to understanding and treating cardiac diseases? Are they the family members who can read the patient’s face and body language and know what the patient is too scared to ask herself? Is it the patient, who, after all, is the only one who really knows what her body feels like?

Mayo Clinic heart patients and family members returned to Mayo in Oct. 2008 to share stories of their care through a program called "Stories of ...

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