“Why not me?”: Clinical trial participation powers patient’s positive attitude

MyVUMC PhotoFrom “Momentum”: If you came across Brooke Thomas with her family and friends “eating their way through Nashville,” as she describes it, you’d never know she was really there for cancer treatment at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. Thomas has metastatic triple-negative breast cancer, and admits that in the beginning she was often asking herself, “Why me?” But she soon flipped the question on its head and asked instead: “Why not me? Why would I be any different from anybody else?”


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