Shortly after arriving at MD Anderson in 1987 as a junior faculty member, Guillermina Lozano, Ph.D., attended several seminars hosted by the center’s biochemistry department.
The biochemists giving the presentations were studying the role of transcription factors – proteins that regulate how genes express themselves. Lozano, a geneticist working to understand p53, a gene known to suppress tumor development, suddenly wondered if...
Reducing the incidence of melanoma through primary and secondary prevention is among one of the shared goals and key partnership strategies...
Each May, Skin Cancer Awareness Month serves as a reminder of how individuals can work to lower their risk of skin cancer – the most common...
Patients with recurrent or second primary head and neck cancer who previously received radiation therapy to the head and neck region – especially those with unresectable tumors – have typically had a dismal prognosis and limited treatment options.
Although radiation therapy offers high rates of local disease control, re-irradiating the region is usually avoided for fear of damaging previously irradiated healthy tissue, including...
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive form of the disease that doesn’t rely on the hormones estrogen and progesterone or the...
By July 31, all U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) housing will be required to be smokefree, in accordance to rule put...