Patient Stories

A summary of our patient stories at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.

Aug. 15, 2023

Tori

"I would say the level of care was top-notch because it really felt as though they were treating me for my unique experience."

May 12, 2023

Natalie

"To know that this medicine is helping me even today, living when the statistics show that I probably shouldn't be. I just, I'm so grateful."

April 14, 2023

Dave

"The people at Emory, in terms of their knowledge, their dedication, their efforts, and their communication about how to manage that cancer that I had and have was just extraordinary."

March 17, 2023

Jesse

"This place saved my life. They really did."

Feb. 1, 2023

David

"My outlook on life is thank God for Emory and all that they do. These physicians and clinicians, the nurses are the best in the world."

Nov. 1, 2022

Brandi

"I loved, loved my team, my medical oncologist, my radiation oncologist, the nurses. I got to know everyone, the receptionist, everybody. It was a good team."

Dec. 1, 2021

Johan

"What's amazing to me, is all the people that come through Winship. I go in there and immediately at the reception area they know my name, they greet me when I come in."

Nov. 1, 2021

Jennifer

"I know that I would have never made it through that without my team at Emory. I just am so grateful that I landed at Emory."

Sep. 1, 2021

Maryann

"Because of them doing clinical trials, because of them doing so much research, if I had not been at Winship, I probably wouldn’t be here today."

Sep. 15, 2020

Tony

There were many great solutions here in Atlanta, but the best to me was Emory Proton Therapy Center."

June 1, 2020

Janice

"You want a doctor who's gonna be there for you...and take you to the best course of treatment."

Feb. 1, 2020

Jenny Arnold

"I feel really confident in Winship. It's a great fit for me."

Sep. 1, 2019

Derrick Cameron

"The clinical trial was a godsend for me. The side effects are basically nil and I have my life again."

Sep. 1, 2019

Marie Spearman

"This is the place to be I think, because you have all this available. The very best!"

April 1, 2019

Tom Willner

"We called Winship and found a urologist and came here because we wanted to go someplace that was a research hospital."

April 1, 2019

Christine Webb

"If there is a clinical trial out there and your regular treatment that they give you doesn't work for you, why not do clinical trials?"

Feb. 1, 2019

Alex Adams

"I felt that through out the entire process, this guy (his doctor) was really listening to me. He was paying attention."

Nov. 1, 2018

Hank Wachter

"They (Winship) have all the tools, all the resources, and all the facets of the science that's necessary to be good at this stuff."

Sep. 3, 2018

Leah Davis

"All of the help that I got from Emory from the doctors to the nurses to the social workers, it was all comprehensive and I really felt like I was their primary concern."

July 23, 2018

Edward

"Doctor Kaufman has got to be the greatest oncologist in the world as far as I'm concerned. And the program they have here is just incredible."

March 20, 2018

Lorraine Harris

"My doctor wanted to try a new drug. As a result, he asked me to be a part of a clinical trial. And I was more than happy to do that."

March 20, 2018

Christen Chandler

"The one thing that Dr. Meisel told me from the very beginning was, this is about maintaining my quality of life."

Nov. 2, 2016

Melanie Mowery

"I would just want every single woman who goes through cancer to know there's a light at the end of the tunnel and that there can still be a fairy tale ending."