Saving Lives by VAP-orizing Pneumonia
When Joseph Nates, M.D., joined MD Anderson's faculty in 2002, he discovered a high incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
By 2009, he and his team had brought its occurrence to zero.
In the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 90% of pneumonias occur while patients are ventilated. Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) increases the length of hospitalization by an average of 23 days, with an associated cost per patient...
Diet and Cancer
Why Cancer Patients Should Get Organized
Woman Beats Rare Form of Cervical Cancer...
Jennifer Dunmoyer lived the first 34 years of her life feeling invincible -- until she was diagnosed with cancer.
"I have always been very healthy," she says. "I never took any medications. I was young, strong and vital and had a deep faith in God."
"Cancer shook everything I ever believed to the very core."
In July 2010, Dunmoyer learned that she had small cell cervical cancer...