Category Archives: Cancer

My final BA flight

By ctaylorphoto | Published: March 13, 2011
I can’t believe that a year has gone by since I took my first trip to Geneva to start this project rolling.  It has literally flown by (haha, pun intended).  Honestly though, as my flight was taking off from NY last Wednesday night I was deeply emotional.  What a year it has been for me. [...]
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Patient’s in Can Tho

By ctaylorphoto | Published: February 13, 2011
Ngu Hue Chau was diagnosed in 2003 with breast cancer, she was 35 years old.  She was petrified.  She is a single woman, supporting herself working as a seamstress.  She underwent a mastectomy and chemotherapy.  In late 2009 her cancer returned.  By the time it was found it had metastasized to her lungs and brain.  [...]
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Can Tho Survivor stories

By ctaylorphoto | Published: February 2, 2011
On our first morning at the hopsital, Dr. Thang introduced us to some wonderful women cancer survivors. I was honored to hear their stories and share mine with them. Le Thi Hoang is 82 years old and a 10 year survivor of breast cancer.  She had a mastectomy, chemotherapy and hormone replacement.  She is a [...]
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Can Tho, Vietnam

By ctaylorphoto | Published: January 25, 2011
From the street looking through the nondescript gates, one would never know that the Can Tho Oncology Hospital is a very special place.  The building looks like all the others on the street except for the constant flow of people around the entrance.  Once inside the gates, indoors and out merge into one space buzzing [...]
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Hanoi, Vietnam

By ctaylorphoto | Published: December 13, 2010
It is 9:00 am on very gray Saturday morning in Hanoi.  Chris and I are trying to locate the room where we are meeting Dr. Dieu Linh Nguyen and Mrs. Huong Phung Thi and their Breast Cancer Club.  Smiling faces gently point us up the grand old staircase in the K cancer hospital to the [...]
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Khun Nongyao

By ctaylorphoto | Published: December 5, 2010
It is impossible for me to fully comprehend the life of Khun Nongyao.  She is a true survivor in every sense.  She lives in abject poverty in a slum in Bangkok.  For 4 months and 14 days she nursed her 33 year old daughter through her final battle with cervical cancer.  They did not have [...]
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more SA

By ctaylorphoto | Published: November 19, 2010
It was my very great honor to meet Sheila Moir and her daughter Kelly.  They are two remarkable women.  Kelly is a stage 4 Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia survivor.  She was diagnosed on March 26th, 2002 at age 17.  She was not a candidate for bone marrow replacement.  Within 10 minutes of being admitted to the [...]
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Cape Town

By ctaylorphoto | Published: November 11, 2010
The first person I met in South Africa (literally off the plane into a rental car and into her office) was a wonderful woman named Linda Greeff.  She works as a oncology social worker for GVI www.cancercare.co.za, a position that she created.  During a routing exam her ob/gyn found a tumor the size of an [...]
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