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Transforming Through Prevention
Annual Report - Winter 2010
By Sandi Stromberg
Karmelda Bradford’s breast cancer scare in 1971 transformed her view of prevention and early detection.
Karmelda Bradford
Fortunately, the lumps were benign cysts, but the experience convinced her of the importance of yearly check-ups. She became even more vigilant when her mother died of the disease in 1998 and her daughter passed away from inflammatory breast cancer in 2005.
An employee at M. D. Anderson for the past 11 years, Bradford is currently a manager in the Department of Nursing Payroll and takes advantage of the institution’s clinical trials.
In April 2004, she joined a study for women at high risk for breast cancer, in which magnetic resonance imaging is alternated with mammography at six-month intervals. Along with other participants, she is comforted that this combination may detect breast cancers not identified by mammography alone.
Discovery. Development. Dissemination.
Screenings are just one way that M. D. Anderson — through the Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences — is transforming minds and lives. A $35 million gift from the Dan L. Duncan Family Foundation in 2008 has allowed establishment of the Duncan Family Institute for Cancer Prevention and Risk Assessment. The institute encompasses research in the areas of behavioral science, clinical cancer prevention, epidemiology and health disparities.
In each of these areas, discoveries are made and tested in clinical studies, from which evidence-based information on prevention and risk assessment can be developed and eventually disseminated to the general public as well as scientific, governmental and health care institutions and agencies.
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