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News and media coverage of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center's Breast Surgical Oncology department.
In the News
2024
September 2024
The National Institutes of Health Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has awarded Ana Refinetti. M.D., and collaborators up to $18 million over five years to develop an affordable digital pathology system for resected tumors to be used in low-resource hospitals worldwide. The collaboration includes researchers from MD Anderson and Rice University.
July 2024
Kerollos Wanis, M.D., Ph.D., Henry Kuerer, M.D., Ph.D., and collaborators published results in JAMA Network Open from their study showing long-term effectiveness of breast-conserving therapy in BRCA-associated breast cancer.
March 2024
Kelly Hunt, M.D., delivered the Society of Surgical Oncology Presidential Address on Friday, March 22, at the 2024 SSO Annual Meeting held in Atlanta, Georgia. Her lecture was titled, "Empowering Surgeons: A Call for Leadership, Mentorship and Collaboration in the Field of Surgical Oncology."
2023
November 2023
Kelly Hunt, M.D., contributed to a series of articles on breast surgeries for HealthCentral. She details the issues surrounding the modified radical mastectomy, the double mastectomy, the nipple-sparing mastectomy and the decision between having a lumpectomy versus a mastectomy.
November 2023
Helen Johnson, M.D., explores the options for cancer survivors wanting to breast- or chestfeed for Cancerwise.
July 2023
Kelly Hunt, M.D., shared her expertise with Yahoo Life on issues surrounding the decision to have a single, rather than a double mastectomy.
March 2023
Henry Kuerer, M.D., Ph.D., discussed early promising results in his study on early-stage triple-negative or HER2-positive breast cancer patients with Cancer Today.
February 2023
Helen Johnson, M.D., her collaborators and the Association of Women Surgeons published an article in JAMA Surgery exploring solutions for making the training of surgeons more family-friendly.
2022
November 2022
Henry Kuerer, M.D., Ph.D., and his exceptional responders clinical trial has shown promising early results. Coverage has included articles in The ASCO Post, The New York Times and over 300 media outlets worldwide.
October 2022
Taiwo Adesoye, M.D., and Puneet Singh, M.D., have each received a National Cancer Institute Paul Calabrisi Career Development Award for Clinical Oncology (K12). The award supports independent clinical research that seeks to improve the medical care of cancer patients or to prevent the development of cancer in populations at risk.
October 2022
Jessica Suarez Colen, M.D., shared her expertise with katytimes.com on best practices to minimize breast cancer risk.
June 2022
Congratulations to Kelly Hunt, M.D., on being named President of the American Radium Society. The Radium Society was founded in 1916 and is the oldest society devoted to the study and treatment of cancer. Dr. Hunt will serve a one-year term in this role.
April 2022
The Society of Surgical Oncology has named Kelly Hunt, M.D., as President-elect for the 2022-2023 governance year.
January 2022
Ana Refinetti, M.D., has been awarded a Diversity in Clinical Trials Career Development Program grant. The goal of the program is to advance health equity through research and mentoring. The program also seeks to increase the number of clinical trial research sites in communities with diverse and underserved patient populations.
2021
November 2021
Cristina Checka, M.D., Makesha Miggins, M.D., and Ana Refinetti, M.D., each scored in the top 1% of physicians nationally ranked by patients for their delivery of care in 2021.
October 2021
Kelly Hunt, M.D., shares her expertise on what people should know about breast cancer at each stage of life for People magazine.
September 2021
Breast Surgical Oncology would like to welcome two new members of faculty: (L-R) Taiwo Adesoye, M.D., Assistant Professor and Solange Cox, M.D., Assistant Professor. Both are graduates of Breast Surgical Oncology's fellowship program.
April 2021
Kelly Hunt, M.D., and the Keyomarsi/Hunt laboratory received Adverse Event Bridge Funding to complete vital breast cancer research interrupted by COVID-19.
2020
December 2020
Jessica Suarez Colen, M.D., MPH, stresses the importance of self-exams and screenings in a FOX 26 story about a deputy sheriff's cancer-free surprise party.
November 2020
Cristina Checka, M.D., was named the Center for Disease Control's national chair of the Advisory Committee for Young Women with Breast Cancer. The committee develops initiatives to increase knowledge of breast health and breast cancer among women, especially for those under age 40 and those at high-risk for developing breast cancer.
July 2020
The American College of Surgeons launched the Cancer Surgery Standards Program to standardize specific techniques for cancer surgery and bring uniformity to the way professionals document and communicate operative data. Vice Chair Kelly Hunt, M.D., is leading this initiative with Matthew Katz, M.D., from Surgical Oncology to improve the quality of surgical care for all cancer patients.
May 2020
Breast Surgical Oncology fellow and mother of two young children Lyndsey Kilgore, M.D., had her skills put to the test when she and her family contracted COVID-19 disease. She shared her story with Cancerwise and local NBC affiliate KPRC.
February 2020
In a study of circulating tumor cells in stage IV melanoma patients, Anthony Lucci, M.D., and his team found liquid biopsy as a possible predictor of patients at high risk for disease progression.
2019
December 2019
Dr. Henry Kuerer, M.D., Ph.D., and Hannah Bomar, MSPAS, PA-C, are featured in Cancerwise this month.
November 2019
Makesha Miggins, M.D., FACS, is now a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). The honor indicates that her education, training, professional qualifications, surgical competence and ethical conduct have passed a strict evaluation and are consistent with the high standards of the ACS.
September 2019
Kelly Hunt, M.D., shares her expertise in U.S. News and World Report's "A Patient's Guide to Surgery."
August 2019
Kelly Hunt, M.D., provided an interview for the Cancer Network on the role of surgery in treating metastatic breast cancer.
August 2019
Abigail Caudle, M.D. is featured in the institutional publication Connections this month. In her role as Executive Medical Director, Perioperative Services, she was instrumental in preparing our surgical areas for the recent government inspections.
July 2019
Mentor Sarah M. DeSnyder, M.D., and Matthew Piotrowksi, M.D., presented a poster at the annual American College of Surgeons Quality and Safety Conference. The project highlighted the importance of standardization in lumpectomy specimen labeling and minimum 3-side orientation to minimize discordance rates.
May 2019
Kelly Hunt, M.D. is featured in Cancerwise this month.
HER2-positive breast cancer survivor: I believe in MD Anderson.
May 2019
Susie Sun, M.D., received two awards at the 2019 American Society of Breast Cancer Surgeons Annual Meeting: the Scientific Impact Award and the George Peters Award for the Best Presentation by a Breast Fellow. The project, mentored by Henry Kuerer, M.D., Ph.D., is titled, "Patient selection for clinical trials eliminating surgery in HER2-positive breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant systemic therapy."
April 2019
Kelly Hunt, M.D., is featured in this month's Cancerwise.
5 things newly diagnosed breast cancer patients should know.
2018
August 2018
Kelly Hunt, M.D., and a multi-institutional team of researchers were awarded nearly six million dollars by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas for their project titled, "Rational combination treatment options to reverse resistance in hormone receptor-positive breast cancer refractory to standard therapy."
August 2018
Kelly Hunt, M.D., is featured in Cancerwise this month.
Inflammatory breast cancer survivor: Why I give back to MD Anderson.
December 2018
MD Anderson's Study Section Review Committee for Clinical, Translational and Population-based Research awarded Rosa Hwang, M.D., a 2-year research grant for her project titled, "Pilot study evaluating the feasibility of robotic-assisted nipple-sparing mastectomy."
2017
December 2017
Kelly Hunt, M.D., was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in recognition of her contributions to basic, translational and clinical research.
Dr. Hunt was honored for "practice-changing breast cancer research involving sentinel lymph node biopsy, breast conservation, novel surgical staging systems, contralateral mastectomy, skin-sparing mastectomy, and quality outcome measures."
October 2017
Kelly Hunt, M.D., is recognized for her contributions in the October 2017 Cancer Frontline publication titled:
Research training programs to address cancer disparities among minorities.
September 2017
Kelly Hunt, M.D., is featured in Cancerwise this month.
Two-time breast cancer survivor is grateful for treatment innovations.
April 2017
Kelly Hunt, M.D., is featured this month in Cancerwise.
2016
April 2016
Kelly Hunt, M.D., was recognized for developing a new breast cancer staging system that incorporates tumor biology as a critical prognostic indicator.
A new staging system for breast cancer.
The work was published in JAMA Oncology as The Neo-Bioscore Update for Staging Breast Cancer Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Incorporation of Prognostic Biological Factors Into Staging After Treatment. (PMID:26986538).
2015
December 2015
Kelly Hunt, M.D., was recognized for her work in leading breast cancer research in the December 2015 issue of Cancer Frontline.