For some spinal tumor and breast cancer patients, too hot or too cold is just right
Surgeons at MD Anderson are using extreme heat and cold as their weapons against some forms of cancer.
They’re finding that the minimally invasive treatments are working as well as, if not better than, standard cancer treatments for many patients. Recovery is dramatically quicker.
Quality of life is better. Patients are more satisfied.
Turning up the heat on spinal cord tumors
MD Anderson patients with certain...
The doctor behind our Healthy Heart Program
Susan Gilchrist, M.D., loves to take on a challenge and to build things. Her latest passion is building a program that helps cancer patients...
The future of cancer diagnosis and treatment: Liquid biopsies can reveal cancer and more
Some of cancer’s secrets are hiding in patients’ blood. Uncovering them involves only a simple blood draw.
MD Anderson is taking innovative...
Prosthodontics lab technicians play key role in cancer treatment
Tucked away in our Head and Neck Center are three artists. But instead of choosing the perfect color for a painting, they select the perfect tooth from tray after tray of various artificial ones – about 1,000 in all.
While not traditional works of art, the custom prosthetics created by these prosthodontic lab technicians are invaluable masterpieces for our patients.
“Each person’s mouth is unique, similar to a fingerprint...
Pediatric cancer patients connect through a robot
Ava can’t take her eyes off the laptop screen. But it’s not a game or a movie that has so fully captured the 7-year-old’s attention. It’s...