While she was a physician in training in Chicago, Sairah Ahmed, M.D., was struck by the similarities between her and a young leukemia patient. Both were intelligent, goal-oriented American women of south Asian descent. They were even the same age. They met and got to know each other throughout the patient’s chemotherapy, hospital stays and toxicity checks.
“She was the only child. Beloved by her parents, aunts, uncles and entire...
For Benjamin Schrank, M.D., Ph.D., personalized medicine is about more than tailoring treatment.
Schrank, a resident physician...
Knowledge is power, and now patients across the country are starting to have more timely access to their health information.
U.S. health...
Georgia Wilson, 24, remembers the first time she shared her own cancer experience to help someone else. She was sitting in the lobby of MD Anderson’s Adolescent and Young Adult Clinic and traded numbers with another patient. She called her the next day, and they’ve been friends ever since.
Wilson, an osteosarcoma survivor, says it was that moment last year when she realized she wanted to become an oncologist, and MD Anderson is...
Fran Epstein arrives before sunrise to organize gifts and review the inpatient hospital floors to visit. Soon after, others join her to prepare...
You see them walking the skybridge: some people wearing patient identification wristbands, some people wearing employee badges. But there...
For 16 years, Rose Trapolino had a hard time walking because of the pain and tingling in her feet.
The breast cancer survivor suffered...
Many of our head and neck cancer patients know Randal Weber, M.D., as their surgeon. But Weber recently took on a new role as MD Anderson’...
How do I download MD Anderson’s app? Which medical websites can I trust? Where can I find the latest research on my disease?
The information...
You’ve probably heard about MD Anderson’s Moon Shots Program™. But what is it?
We asked Ernest Hawk, M.D., co-leader of the Colorectal...