Sandra G. Boodman
Sandra G. Boodman is a freelancer for The Washington Post.
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Hoping to find other patients, a man in Washington revealed a cancer often mistaken for “jock itch”
Stephen Schroeder figured he had little to lose, his growing sense of desperation fueled by the loneliness of his unusual diagnosis.

Cancer? She thought so, and so did her doctor
In an awful way, it all made perfect sense, Gail T. Wells remembers thinking as neurologist Thy Nguyen matter-of-factly explained that she was ordering tests to check for an underlying...