Walmart's support of Boot Walk benefits medical students
Summer 2013
Promise is published three times a year by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and is dedicated to our friends who have joined us in Making Cancer History®.
Lyda Hill commits $50 million to Moon Shots Program
Cancer Prevention Center to be named in honor of Dallas philanthropist
A word from the president
How team science aims to beat cancer
Donor commitments to unprecedented assault on cancer surpass $100 million
e-Health is no longer a wave of the future - it's our reality
Offering hope for a noninvasive cure
Tom Bates is co-owner of Glendarroch Homes. A graduate of Texas Christian University, he lives with his wife and four children in Fort Worth.
Ashley Loeffler, of Houston, is chair of MD Anderson's Advance Team, a volunteer leadership board of "next generation" community and business leaders. She's worked in the office of Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Sen. Jeffrey Wentworth, in the development office at The University of Texas at Austin and as campaign finance director of Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. She and her husband Lance have three children.
Martin High School contributes to first pediatric colon cancer clinical trial
The Dr. Marnie Rose Foundation celebrates a decade of funding brain cancer research
IBC survivor dedicated to fighting rare form of breast cancer
Polo events prove effective fundraisers in fight against cancer
Screening, education offer hope for colorectal cancer
Colleen Villamin claims 2013 Ethel Fleming Arceneaux Award
Scurlock Foundation continues tradition of making a difference
Septembeard urges men to 'be a hero' in fight against prostate cancer
MD Anderson delivers anti-smoking message to students
The MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital's newly renovated and expanded floor space brings together all pediatric treatment and services on one floor along with Ronald McDonald Family Room areas, an in-hospital school, a large play park, a kitchen, a teen room and other amenities.
MD Anderson team member, physician-scientist David Piwnica-Worms, M.D., Ph.D., has assumed two leadership posts at MD Anderson: chair of Cancer Systems Imaging and deputy division head, research affairs, for Diagnostic Imaging.
Helen Piwnica-Worms, Ph.D., has joined MD Anderson as vice provost to lead science research at the institution.
MD Anderson welcomed Ethan Dmitrovsky, M.D., in July as new provost and executive vice president.
Medal of honor goes to pioneer and leader in cancer metastasis
John Mendelsohn, M.D., director of MD Anderson's Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy and former MD Anderson president, has been elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Study moves researchers closer to personalized cancer treatment
Prevents tumor suppressors in cells from maturing
Latest results confirm high rate of response, remission
Findings disappoint brain cancer experts seeking effective therapy
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