Category: Survivorship

As the coordinator and co-founder of what is now the University of Alabama at Birmingham Breast Health Center, Madeline Harris counseled and empathized with countless cancer patients over the years. She never imagined that her daughter, Kristen Noles, would someday be one of them.

When doctors found that 46-year-old Hayden Olds of Fairhope, Alabama, had a low-risk lesion on his prostate, Olds says he was caught off guard because he had not experienced any symptoms and was younger than the typical prostate cancer patient. To ensure he made the right decision moving forward, he chose to come to the University of Alabama at Birmingham.