Mission accomplished: NASA doctor receives personalized leukemia treatment

Fall 2016
Read about MD Anderson researchers' search for the answer to why some people respond to cancer therapy while others don't, as well as the evolution of chemotherapy, an end to hepatitis C, the mysteries of telomeres and more.

The plan to make cancer predictable
Researchers with the APOLLO platform of the Moon Shots Program are using immense amounts of longitudinal clinical and research data to understand
why the disease responds to or resists certain treatments
When researchers and physicians enter the field of medicine, they make a commitment to improve human life. It’s been said that those...
Shoelaces only work well if they’re capped at the ends by small plastic tips that prevent them from fraying. In much the same way,...
When Stacey Hanks was diagnosed with breast cancer, her doctor recommended the standard treatment — surgery to cut out the tumor,...
MD Anderson’s one-of-a-kind clinic treats the virus and cancer
The stats that support being vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV) are staggering
Chemistry professor Bindu Chakravarty rarely missed a
day teaching at Houston Community College. So when
she called in sick one...
Thanks to the FIT-Flu screening program, an uninsured man’s colorectal cancer was caught early and his life was saved
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