David Swanson

Better late than never. Dr. Swanson was a wonderful doctor and a wonderful human being. He was my doctor beginning in 2002 until he retired from MD Anderson. If it weren’t for him and God working together, I would not be here today. It started out as cancer in my bladder and it went into one of my kidneys which he removed. He was a real blessing to so many people and is still missed by so many people not only because of his caring, compassion and intelligence and also when you were in his...

Dr. Swanson literally gave me my husband Bill back for multiple years, we are going on 16 + years.
In 2003, Bill was diagnosed with multiple cancerous tumors in both kidneys, at this time the life expectancy was 5 years. DR. Swanson created a plan to just remove tumors from the right kidney, leaving 95% of that kidney, and removing the tumors from the left kidney, leaving 80% kidney function. This allowed my husband to continue living normally for 11 years before another tumor in the...

David was smart and thoughtful, I was glad to have known him the many times I was his patient.

Mack Ray
Corpus Christi, Texas

I met Dr.Swanson in May 2003, we were there for my husband's first visit to MD Anderson, I was so impressed with him. My husband had multiple tumors on both kidneys (unusual). On July the 4th that year he called us at our home in Alabama to talk to us about Bill's upcoming surgery. Between him and Dr. Mateen, they saved both of my husband's kidneys after two very long surgeries. Over the next years we saw Dr. Swanson, even after he retired. We became email buddies, I will update him on...

David was a wonderful classmate. We didn't see him too often at Class Reunions but after listening to his career, etc. we can see that he was quite busy. You will be missed.
Bonnie Coy Jacobs

David's caring can be well-illustrated by my experience. A week or so before my scheduled surgery he called to ask if I would mind moving it up one day -- as he had been invited to a ceremony at the White House that day and wanted to attend if he could. Of course I said yes. The day after the surgery he came by my bed at MDACC at 5:00am, told me everything looked good, and asked if I was still OK with him getting on his flight to Washington in two hours. He wasn't going to leave unless I...

As a patient and colleague, I have appreciated the medical knowledge and thoughtful treatment, as well as knowing a really fine individual.