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Transforming Through Patient Care
Annual Report - Winter 2010
By Mary Brolley
Anthony “Tony” Espinoza knows he’s an adored big brother to his three younger siblings — not to mention a sharp dresser.
Anthony "Tony" Espinoza
But the charming 6-year-old seems blissfully unaware that he has benefited from the knowledge of retinoblastoma experts in M. D. Anderson’s departments of Pediatrics and Head and Neck Surgery and the new Retinoblastoma Center of Houston.
His mother, Adalinda Gomez, remembers her reaction to Tony’s diagnosis in 2007 with this rare cancer of the eye.
“I took it harder than he did,” she says. “I asked the doctors if they could remove my retina and give it to him.”
Because effective treatment required the removal of his right eye, Tony wears a prosthetic version. Although the disease has changed his and his family’s lives forever, he has the advantage of several experts available to design his therapy.
Challenges become opportunities
At M. D. Anderson, the challenges of 2008-2009 have been transformed into opportunities: an opportunity to serve more patients, an opportunity for our doctors and nurses to think innovatively in the treatment of patients, and an opportunity to reach out to a broader community.
Included here are just a few innovations and discoveries in patient care, from the collaborative Retinoblastoma Center for children with eye cancer to the discovery that older age doesn’t prevent the possibility of a blood stem cell transplant.
M. D. Anderson also has moved further down the road on the electronic medical record, which allows patients and their community physicians access to information on diagnoses and treatments.
Annual Report - Winter 2010
Transforming Through Research
- Blazing a Shorter Trail Between the Lab and Patients
- 'Meeting of the Minds' to Explore RNAs
- New Grants Give Researchers the GO-ahead
- Research Highlights
Transforming Through Patient Care
- Keeping MD Anderson Vital
- Advocating for Patients, Reinventing Practices
- EMR Connects Patients, Physicians to Real-Time Data
- Satellites Demonstrate Good Neighbor Policy
- Patient Care Highlights
Transforming Through Prevention
- Finding Needles in Haystacks
- Aging Survivors Can Learn New 'Tricks'
- Ask-Advise-Consent: A Matter of Public Health
- A Guide Through the Maze
- Prevention Highlights
Transforming Through Education
- Mentoring Builds, Shares Knowledge
- The Shaping of a Symptom Researcher
- Outreach to the Virtual Neighborhood
- Helping Young Scientists Triumph
- Odysseys of Discovery
- Education Highlights
Transforming Through Development
- Planning to Give — and to Receive
- Annual Fund Opens Possibilities for Young Researchers
- Open Hearts, Giving Hands
- Development Highlights
People and Data