Issues

Promise Newsletter - Fall 2011

Read about John Weinstein, M.D., Ph.D., who is using computer-generated tools such as clustered heat maps to create molecular portraits of cancer that can lead to personalized therapies.

Promise Newsletter - Summer 2011

Read about Crave Cupcakes partnership with MD Anderson's Childrens Cancer Hospital's Arts in Medicine program. The popular Houston-area bakery is partnering with Arts in Medicine, a program that offers patients at MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital a creative outlet.

Promise Newsletter - Spring 2011 

Read about John Mendelsohn, M.D., and his passion for Making Cancer History^®. He will step down from his role as MD Anderson’s third president to resume personalized cancer therapy research. He and his wife, Anne, were honored at a recent celebration of the institution’s 70th anniversary.

Promise Newsletter - Fall 2010

Read how philanthropy is helping transform cancer care, research, prevention, detection and more at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The current issue of Promise, brought to you by the Development Office, offers stories of generosity, courage and discovery.

Promise Newsletter - Summer 2010

The current issue of Promise, brought to you by the Development Office, offers stories of generosity, courage and discovery, plus the latest survey results from U.S. News and World Report’s “America’s Best Hospitals” survey ranking MD Anderson once again as No. 1 in cancer care.

Promise Newsletter - Spring 2010

For almost seven decades, philanthropy has fueled cutting-edge cancer research and nurtured innovative patient care programs at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Researchers and clinicians at MD Anderson continue to redefine the standard of cancer care across the globe. Today, the challenge is to seize opportunities and strive toward continued advances in diagnosing, treating and preventing cancer such as personalized therapies and gene-based strategies. Again, philanthropy plays a central role.

Promise Newsletter - Fall 2009

Learn about "the art of the possible" in the fall 2009 issue of Promise, a newsletter of the Development Office at MD Anderson. Read the latest on the Children's Cancer Hospital at MD Anderson, plus timely fundraising efforts, research highlights, awe-inspiring donor stories, newsworthy awards and more.

Promise Newsletter - Summer 2009

Hope grows in the Summer 2009 issue of Promise, a newsletter of the Development Office at MD Anderson, with an update on the George and Barbara Bush Endowment for Innovative Cancer Research, plus timely fundraising efforts, research highlights, awe-inspiring donor stories, newsworthy awards and more. Check out new features iPromise and Survivors Say, and, in Among Friends, read about an Atlanta man’s personal battle against lung cancer.

Promise Newsletter - Spring 2009

The BATTLE Toward Personalized Lung Cancer Therapy - More people die from lung cancer than from breast, prostate and colon cancers combined.MD Anderson’s Lung Cancer Research Program is striving to change those statistics.

Promise Newsletter - Fall 2008

A Helping Hand - At the School of Health Sciences, Scholarships Address a Critical Need

Promise Newsletter - Summer 2008

Targeting Cancer Before It Starts - Dan L. Duncan Family Supports Prevention Program with $35 Million Gift

Promise Newsletter - Spring 2008

Banking on Hope - Cord Blood Collection Expands Options for Stem Cell Transplant Candidates.

Promise Newsletter - Fall 2007

Philanthropy: The Gift that Keeps on Giving - Harrison Elias is a tall, lanky eighth-grader who looks forward to his last year of middle school, enjoys football and basketball and plays a mean drum solo - traits of the typcial 14-year-old, one might say.
But Harrison is far from typical.

Promise Newsletter - Summer 2007

CABIR Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging Research - Long before they are large enough to be detected by the most sensitive current imaging techniques, tiny tumors weave a web of new blood vessels to nourish their growth. Juri Gelovani, M.D., Ph.D., chair of MD Anderson’s Department of Experimental Diagnostic Imaging, believes researchers can turn this blood supply against tumors to betray their existence before they can be imaged directly.

Promise Newsletter - Spring 2007

Center Focuses on Personalized Cancer Therapies - MD Anderson’s Center for Targeted Therapy (CTT) is in the thick of two great changes in cancer care: developing drug therapies that prey on the molecular vulnerabilities of cancer while largely sparing normal tissue, and personalizing cancer treatments to individual patients. “It’s an amazingly exciting time to be doing what we are doing now,” says Garth Powis, D.Phil., director of the CTT and chair of the Department of Experimental Therapeutics.