Adoption of radiation therapy technology has increased around the world to the point that access to the technology itself is often no longer the main barrier for many patients to receive care. Instead, it's the lack of qualified specialists available to do the treatment planning.
Planning is a multi-step process where clinicians analyze medical images to design a personalized radiation treatment plan that includes where the radiation...
Driven by our mission to end cancer, MD Anderson researchers developed new therapies, analyzed vast data sets, solved medical mysteries and...
Since radiation therapy was first used to treat cancer over a century ago, clinicians have sought the right balance between maximizing the...
Since the discovery of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs), a family of proteins vital in the early stages of cell development, scientists have tried to target them to disrupt the division and proliferation of cancer cells. This is especially true in breast cancer due to its reliance on this process for growth.
The first generation of these agents, known as CDK inhibitors, targeted both CDK4 and CDK6. That is why they’re known as CDK4...
When a patient receives a cancer diagnosis, one of the things their doctor might refer to is whether their cancer has microsatellite instability...