Back in the game after a brain tumor in the bladder
Annual Report 2014
MD Anderson’s 2014 Annual Report highlights achievements and contributions of our faculty, staff, volunteers and donors in advancing the research, treatment and prevention of cancer. It also provides key financial and statistical data.
With elevated risks, these survivors and...
When doctors told Mariana Torrado she had breast cancer, she didn’t believe them at first.
Triathlete and marathoner Leslie Russell teaches reading to children with dyslexia in the Spring Branch Independent School District....
The good news is death rates continue to decline for the most common types of cancer, including lung, colon, breast and prostate.
Designed to greatly improve patients’ wait experiences
In keeping with a nationwide hospital trend to create softer, less clinical surroundings for patients and families, MD Anderson’s...
Tucked in the elbow crook of Louisiana’s eastern border with Mississippi lies the small town of Independence.
When treating women with breast cancer, less is sometimes more.
Anxieties are eased by talking to someone who’s been there
When Marshall Loosier was diagnosed with rectal cancer and underwent a colostomy 15 years ago, he worried about how the surgery would...
Patients are given a voice so they can be heard
A truly patient-centered organization is one that involves patients and families in the planning, delivery and evaluation of the care...
Like many first-time parents, Gerardo and Dilma Camarillo worried when their 9-month-old daughter, Ivana, was running a fever....
Tiny, virus-sized particles released by cancer cells may be the next big thing in the world of cancer biology. Exosomes, derived from...
A state of Texas program designed to expedite innovations in new cancer treatments has helped MD Anderson recruit several new faculty...
MD Anderson’s expertise in cancer immunotherapy attracted the interest of four major pharmaceutical companies, which signed three-year...
The first experimental drug to be produced by MD Anderson’s drug discovery and development institute will kill cancer cells in a new...
Uncovering a protein’s key role in the spread of ovarian cancer
A protein beacon on the surface of runaway ovarian cancer cells guides them to a sanctuary organ where they take hold and spread.
Marietta Cline is one busy woman. As a doctor with four children who loves to travel and build custom furniture, she’s a go-getter...
13 hospital systems in 11 states ... and counting
Mark Cripe, D.O., is a surgeon with the nonprofit OhioHealth network in Columbus, Ohio. But attached to the lapel of his white coat is...
As a youngster growing up in São Paulo, Diogo Bugano Diniz Gomes was fascinated by how things worked and how to fix them when they...
Since its introduction in the 1940s, the Pap test has been successfully detecting abnormal cells in the cervix that, if left...
Jenny Dahl was within a semester of graduating with a nutrition degree when an invitation changed her mind — and her future.
Degrees of separation: Science stars are born at graduate school
Wilderness doctor Matt Lewin, M.D., Ph.D., has traveled to the ends of the Earth treating scientists who work in remote and dangerous...
The center that provides veterinary and preclinical research services to support MD Anderson has received new, leading-edge laboratory...
Achieving a win-win-win
Good things come in threes — like MD Anderson’s corporate alliances initiative.
EndTobacco begins at MD Anderson
More than 42% of adults in the United States were smokers back in 1964, when the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health...
Baby boomers — Americans born between 1945 and 1965 — grew up in one of the wealthiest, most idealistic and physically fit generations...
Should you be screened for liver cancer?
Screening tests are powerful cancer prevention tools that
can detect pre-cancerous conditions early, sometimes before symptoms arise....
More than 3,500 local women who are low income and uninsured have received free mammograms through an MD Anderson community outreach...
It was 1980 when Janelle Hail of Frisco, Texas, discovered a small lump during a self-breast exam. A visit to the doctor resulted in...
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