Mobile devices help motivate cancer survivors to exercise, lower recurrence risk
Researchers in MD Anderson’s Center for Energy Balance in Cancer Prevention and Survivorship are using mobile technology to learn what motivates cancer survivors to increase and maintain physical activity
Physical activity is an effective way to lower cancer risk in healthy individuals, but it’s even more important for cancer survivors, explains Karen Basen-Engquist, Ph.D., professor of Behavioral Science and director of the Center...
ECHO 'Superhub' status expands MD Anderson's reach into underserved areas
Major innovations in cancer prevention, screening and treatment continue to develop at a rapid pace, especially through research initiatives...
'Collateral lethality' may lead to new cancer treatments
Cancer cells often delete genes that normally suppress tumor formation. These deletions also may extend to neighboring genes, an event known...
Study links contralateral breast cancer with dense tissue
Breast cancer patients with dense breast tissue have almost a two-fold increased risk of developing disease in the other breast, according to new research from MD Anderson Cancer.
The study, published in the journal Cancer, is among the first to find the association between breast density (BD) and what is known as contralateral breast cancer (CBC). Dense breasts have a lot more fibrous connective tissue and glandular tissue...
Partnership formed to speed up widespread use of liquid biopsies
MD Anderson Cancer Center and Guardant Health recently announced a multi-year partnership designed to more quickly make comprehensive liquid...
Cancer centers join together to endorse new HPV vaccine guidelines
As national vaccination rates for the human papillomavirus (HPV) remain low, MD Anderson Cancer Center has again united with the...
FDA’s push to regulate smokeless tobacco should be applauded
MD Anderson Cancer Center fully supports the proposed rule by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to limit a known carcinogen in finished...
FDA approves immunotherapy drug for advanced bladder cancer
Bladder cancer patients with advanced disease have a new option for treatment after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week approved...
Global cancer prevention efforts support
World Cancer Day goals
World Cancer Day is Saturday, Feb. 4. It’s the one singular initiative under which the entire world unites to fight cancer through prevention...