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Meet our Faces of The Giving Gig 2023, men and women who have benefited from Community cancer care and the Oncology Patient Assistance Fund, as they share their stories of courage, strength and perseverance.
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“Find yourself a good hospital like Community with a strong, supportive, nurturing, knowledgeable staff that gives sound advice, good energy and that will support you and care for you. This is a very serious matter. You want the best care team with the best communication and a team that gives you options to make choices about your treatment.”
During a follow-up appointment from a procedure to resolve a
pinched nerve, Milton’s primary care physician Charles Michael Platz, MD, found a lesion that required further inspection. In retrospect, Milton realized that he had been losing weight but hadn’t noticed; he was very active and exercised regularly.
Dr. Platz referred Milton to Daniel William Sonnenburg, MD, a medical oncologist at Community Health Network MD Anderson Cancer Center. At this follow-up visit, additional tests revealed he had prostate cancer. Milton remembers being stunned.
“It hits you like a ton of bricks,” he said. “I figured it would be a long road, but I wasn’t sure what to expect.”
“My world was completely wrecked – I dropped out of school, stopped working and postponed my wedding. Everything was put on hold… for people to be there and make me feel like they understand how I felt meant so much and was a huge financial relief.”
In April of 2022, Brittany, was diagnosed with breast cancer.
A mother of three in her early 30s, Brittany was shocked and scared of what this meant and how it would impact her life.
Brittany was connected by her family physician – who had helped Brittany get a biopsy and mammogram resulting in her diagnosis – to Annette Moore, MD, a medical oncologist at Community Health Network MD Anderson Cancer Center.
“They thought Dr. Moore was the best oncologist around,” said Brittany. “Once I met her, I was very impressed.”
“She surprised me with a $250 gift card. That really helped us out when I was at my weakest. Later, I asked her for other possible resources, and she again provided me with a gift card. This not only bought our groceries but helped me to obtain all of the school supplies my daughter needed to start her senior year of high school.”
Due to delays related to COVID-19 , Amy’s annual mammogram
kept getting pushed back. It was near her fifty-second birthday before she was able to get in, and she received a call shortly thereafter to return for further testing – the first time this had happened in the years she had had annual mammograms. While she remained optimistic, she knew breast cancer was prevalent in her family so she mentally prepared for a potential diagnosis.
Amy learned she indeed had breast cancer. She was connected to Natraj Reddy Ammakkanavar, MD, as her medical oncologist, and Kristianna Gill, NP, at Community Health Network MD Anderson Cancer Center. At that time, she also became a patient of Dwight Benjamin McCurdy, MD, a surgeon; Jennifer Elizabeth Fisher, MD, a radiation oncologist and Jill Hensley, RN, as her nurse navigator.
Initial testing seemed as though her treatment would be relatively easy, but further testing revealed more than one type of cancer, including a more aggressive version than was originally realized.
“This helped tremendously. I can’t tell you, on a monthly limited income through disability, what that kind of help meant to me.”
In August of 2021, Darlene was admitted to a Central Indiana 
hospital with COVID-19 and double pneumonia. There, she learned she also had a mass on her pancreas. She was released from the local hospital, but the follow-up call she had been told to expect to schedule a biopsy never came.
Her sister was concerned, and she got in touch with Jason Everman, DO, her family medicine physician with Community Health Network.
“I think she spoke to him at around 9:00 at night, and he wanted to see me at 8:00 the next morning.” Darlene said. “The experience with Community was much different.”
“I was able to stay afloat with the support of my parents and the help of the Oncology Patient Assistance Fund, which is amazing and helped cover some grocery trips. I am a single mom so it would not have been possible without the help!”
A native and lifelong Hoosier, Dana turned to Community Health Network MD Anderson Cancer Center – a leading cancer center right in her backyard on the southside of Indianapolis – when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
“Community has it together,” she said. “I was amazed at how
fast they got me in and things started rolling.”
Dana was connected to a team of highly experienced physicians including: Mary Louise Mayer, MD, as her medical oncologist, Alexander Augustyn, MD, PhD, as her radiation oncologist, Erin Zusan, MD, as her surgeon and Eugene Hsiao, MD, as her reconstructive surgeon. She also met Danielle Peters, RN, who would serve as her nurse navigator, attend appointments with her to help answer questions and guide her throughout her journey, as well as Melissa Harris, who serves as senior clinical research coordinator at Community Health Network and is supporting Dana through a clinical research trial.
