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Patient Stories
 Six years ago, when Elisabeth Nave, now 62, started developing symptoms that included obesity, osteoporosis, insomnia, kidney stones and hair loss, she attributed it to what most women her age would: menopause. Read More »  Gary Roach, 45, had been having headaches for years. After all, they were nothing a little Advil couldn’t cure, and Roach was too busy making movies for Clint Eastwood’s production company Malpaso to be held back by a little pain in the back of his head. Read More » It was Ian Commissiong’s wife who first noticed the deteriorating health that eventually led him to seek out the help of Daniel Kelly, MD, Director of the Brain Tumor Center at the John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica. It was mid-2007, and Commissiong and his family had just moved from Fairbanks, Ala., to Seattle, Wash. Read More » Seeking the top neurosurgical experts in the world, a young Spanish pharmacist, whose life-threatening brain stem tumor had not been adequately treated in her native country, traveled to the Chan Soon-Shiong Neuroscience Institute at Saint John’s Health Center in November 2009 to have her tumor successfully removed through her nose without an incision. Read More »  Forty-three years old and pregnant with her twins at the time of her diagnosis, Edu had suffered from headaches and nosebleeds for years. But when she started to lose her sight she knew something was drastically wrong. “My neck wouldn’t turn all of a sudden,” Edu remembers. “I was having nosebleeds while I was sleeping, and then I couldn’t see.” Read More » Having cancer enriched my life in ways I couldn’t possibly have imagined,” said Lisa Bronson, a five-year-plus breast cancer survivor. “The disease and the aftermath have brought substance and focus to my life.”Bronson was a busy national sales director for an upscale shoe manufacturer and a mom on the verge of divorce when cancer was discovered during her routine annual mammogram at Saint John’s Health Center. Read More » 74 year old Mirjam Rozenfeld loves to laugh but she certainly wasn't laughing last year when she sat down with her doctor who told her she had a brain tumor. Fortunately it was benign but she was having headaches, dizziness, and it doubled in size in just a few months. Read More » When Mo Borghei was facing surgery for the removal of his cancerous prostate at age 62, he looked at all the options. “I did a lot of research on the Internet and discussed it with my son, who is a doctor. I then met with three doctors before I chose Dr. S. Adam Ramin,” he explains. “I was convinced that the da Vinci robotic procedure Dr. Ramin performs was my best choice.” Read More » A retired heavy equipment operator in Michigan, Miller began experiencing abdominal pains in mid-2007. He thought he just had indigestion or a stomachache. However, one night, the pain so intense his wife Brenda had to take him to the local emergency room.
Read More » .jpg) On the evening of March 25, 2009, Suzanne Sun had a 30-minute lapse in memory. While memory loss isn’t an uncommon occurrence, it was a scary event for this 47-year-old Fox Studios Account Executive. “Physically I felt okay, but I couldn’t make sense of anything,” Sun said. “I was disoriented and essentially lost in my own house.” Read More »
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