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Providence Cancer Center “I felt like my doctor could see me as a real person. He listened. He cared about my feelings.”

Antoinette Green

Antoinette Green was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in September 2006. It was right at the same time that she received her Bachelor of Science degree from Marylhurst University and was planning on starting her own mortgage company. “I thought I was going to die,” she says. “I had no idea how I would take care of my kids.”

Thankfully, Antoinette found medical oncologist Craig Nichols, M.D. “He gave me hope for a future. I was no longer just a patient with a number attached to her chart,” she says. “For the first time in my life, I felt like my doctor could see me as a real person. He listened. He cared about my feelings. He explained things to me, even when it was hard for me to hear. Dr. Nichols made me believe I had a chance at life with my children.”

Antionette is now undergoing an autologous stem cell transplant at the new Providence Cancer Center a procedure that will help her immune system bounce back after a particularly rigorous round of chemotherapy. “But with people such as Dr. Nichols and all of the staff, I am not worried. This is a place that brings ordinary people back to their families.”

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