How do feeding tubes work? What cancer patients and caregivers...
Maintaining proper nutrition during cancer treatment is important. When cancer patients struggle with this, a feeding tube can help....
Which cancers can be treated with immune checkpoint...
Updated June 28, 2024
Immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that does not target the cancer itself, unlike traditional...
4 things I love about MD Anderson
I worked in broadcast TV news for more than 40 years before retiring last summer, so I’ve done a lot of stories about different...
15 healthy holiday gifts to give during the COVID-19 pandemic
Starting your holiday shopping? When it comes to gifts, you might be wondering if there are special items that could make life easier...
11 ways to support cancer patients and survivors this...
Holiday celebrations look a lot different this year because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. It’s a difficult time for...
Acoustic neuroma survivor resumes life after Gamma Knife®...
I woke up one morning and noticed I was having trouble hearing in my left ear. I also had a loud ringing in that ear. I made an...
Multiple myeloma: When to treat and when to wait
Multiple myeloma is a cancer that develops in a type of white blood cell called plasma cells. Normally, these cells help us make...
Surgical technique drastically reduces pain for amputee...
When Annette Rios was diagnosed with chondrosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, doctors told her they’d need to amputate her right leg...
Uterine cancer survivor: Please wear a mask
The past few months have been a little hard for me. For one thing, there’s the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. For another, I was diagnosed...
Personalized triple-negative breast cancer treatment made...
I didn’t have any breast cancer symptoms until early 2019. Then, a lump the size of a lime popped up on my right breast, seemingly...
How molecular testing and targeted therapy are changing...
B-cell lymphoma isn’t one disease. There are about 63 subtypes, with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) being the most common. A...
Throat cancer survivor: 5 things I love about MD Anderson
Cancer runs in my family. My mom alone has lost three of her sisters to the disease. So, when I heard a doctor tell me, “You have...
Helping cancer survivors get – and stay – active
At the time of her breast cancer diagnosis, Teresa Serbia knew she was overweight.
“After I was fortunate enough to become a...
Clinical trials glossary: 12 terms to know
New and better cancer treatments are discovered through clinical trials. By joining one, patients get access to the most cutting-edge...
Compassion and connection helped me through prostate cancer...
In spring 2017, I went in for a routine physical and heard the words that no guy wants to hear: “You have late-stage aggressive...
What it’s like to be a caregiver for an international...
In early 2018, my husband, Guillermo, wanted to participate in an IRONMAN competition near our home in Quito, Ecuador. A blood test...
7 ways to cope with scanxiety
If medical tests cause you anxiety, you’re not alone. It’s common to feel stress or worry in anticipation of medical tests, during...
Monoclonal antibodies and cancer treatment: What to know
Last updated Jan. 11, 2022.
First emerging almost three decades ago, monoclonal antibodies are changing the way doctors treat cancer...
New class of immunotherapy targets found in pancreatic and...
For patients with pancreatic cancer, the benefits from immunotherapy treatments with immune checkpoint inhibitors or cell therapies...
10 things to know about esophageal cancer
Updated June 1, 2022
More than 16,000 people in the United States will be diagnosed with esophageal cancer this year. Roughly 75% of...
Predicting and preventing CAR T cell therapy side effects...
CAR T cell therapy has changed the way aggressive B-cell lymphoma is treated. Previously, when patients had a second recurrence after...
Extra-mammary Paget’s disease survivor: Time matters
In 2013, Sandy Fontan was a 53-year-old marathon runner in tip-top shape. She maintained a healthy diet and ran between 25 and 30...
Getting answers for patients with a suspicion of cancer
Like clockwork, Katherine Moreno gets a cold every year. It always leads to bronchitis, then asthma.
“I don’t go anywhere without a...
Surgery, proton therapy put stage III lung cancer survivor...
In September 2014, I developed a cough that would not go away. It seemed to get worse at night. From that September until March 2015,...
Why I’m glad I chose MD Anderson for breast cancer treatment
With cancer treatment — as with life — you can only make decisions based on what you know at any given moment. But new information...
Colorectal cancer researchers focus on minimal residual...
Minimal residual disease (MRD) is a term commonly used with blood cancers that describes a small fraction of cancer cells that remain...