Lisa Sayer never passes up an opportunity to make someone laugh.
So when she received the results of her CT scan and saw a large, cancerous mass growing inside her abdomen, she had a zinger ready to go.
“I thought, ‘Anything this big needs a name,’” Sayer said. “I decided we’d name it ‘Bubba.'”
“Bubba,” Sayer soon learned, was appendix cancer that had begun spreading through her abdomen. She met with Divya Sood, M.D., an assistant professor of surgery (surgical oncology) in the OHSU School of Medicine. Sayer underwent HIPEC surgery, a two-step treatment that surgically removes tumors before filling the abdomen with chemotherapy, and is now doing tremendously. She is forever grateful for the lifesaving care she received at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute.
“They knew exactly what to do, and they did it. I was afforded a future because of those wonderful people.”
Lisa Sayer
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