Patient Stories

Every year approximately 50,000 Americans die from colorectal cancer. A month-long Mayo Clinic social media campaign aims to change that. For those of us in[...]

A baseball accident is what landed Jake Knutson in the emergency department. But then doctors discovered something else: Jake's kidneys were failing, and he would[...]

Dave and Elaine Mendelin had retired to their dream home on the shores of Lake Superior when a trip to Rochester changed their future for[...]

At 28, Macey Hoaglund was told her symptoms may be due to ALS. The uncertainty brought her to Mayo Clinic, where she's still looking for[...]

When she was in second grade, Abri Bentley was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Today, she’s adjusting to life without part of her[...]

Doug Walsh came to Mayo Clinic for prostate cancer treatment and decided that while he was there, he was going to make the most of[...]

When Rob Ronnenberg captured the moment his fiancée took her first breath with new lungs, he did so only to preserve the powerful moment. But[...]

Rachael Drazan-Malmberg was just 31 when she was diagnosed with lung cancer, an experience that turned the former college hockey standout and member of Team[...]

Families of children who need a heart transplant are faced with many challenges, but thanks to Ireland's Hope, they now have somewhere to turn when[...]

When Caitlin and Brian Veitz learned via ultrasound that their daughter’s heart was developing outside her chest, they relied on a team at Mayo Clinic[...]