Cancer patients usually have to make some lifestyle adjustments to accommodate their treatment. That could mean anything from taking time off to recover from surgery to waking up early to get to chemotherapy infusions before heading in to work.
Everyone’s accommodations will look a little different, depending on the type of cancer they have, how advanced it is and their individual treatment plan.
But what if...
It's a procedure that goes by many names: Pap smear, Papanicolaou test, Pap test, cytology or simply a ‘Pap.’
At MD Anderson, we refer...
A craniotomy and a craniectomy are surgical procedures used to treat conditions in the brain. They are both performed by neurosurgeons.
For Carlos Morera, the only symptom of oral cancer was a small lump beneath his jaw when shaving.
With a history of cancer, he knew that a swollen lymph node or a painless lump in the neck was among the most common symptoms of oral cancer.
“My first reaction was fear,” says Carlos. “I had undergone surgery for thyroid cancer the year before and was told the cancer was gone.”
His ENT told him not to worry but recommended...
At MD Anderson, our dedicated interventional radiologists perform around 500 kidney biopsies a year. Nearly all of them are guided by advanced...
Mastectomy is the scientific term for the surgical removal of the breast. It is frequently used to treat and prevent breast cancer. It can...
Ear cancer can develop in any part of the ear. It often starts on the outside of the ear as a skin cancer, but it can also form inside...
Most people know that losing weight has numerous benefits, but making major lifestyle changes can be extremely difficult. For example, obese...
Cell therapies, often described as ‘living therapies,’ are a form of immunotherapy created using immune cells from a patient or healthy donor...
They say a picture is worth 1,000 words.
In the case of MD Anderson’s immunotherapy platform, part of the James P. Allison Institute...