Liver cancer is one of the most quickly increasing types of cancer in the United States due to a poor lifestyle causing obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Once mostly seen in older adults and patients with hepatitis, it is now seen in younger patients and those without hepatitis.
Cancers that begin in the liver are called primary liver cancers. They are named after the types of cells where the cancer...
In the past, patients with a particular cancer type all received the same treatment, but research has shown that tumors have unique features...
Between 5% and 10% of all cancers are hereditary, which means that changes in specific genes are passed from one generation to another. People...
When Cherie Sanders’ doctor in Amarillo diagnosed her with breast cancer, he described her tumor as “5 centimeters by 2.5 centimeters” and “the size of a walnut.”
These words left Cherie wondering what her tumor really looked like. Walnuts vary in size, so how big was it? Was it round or asymmetrical?
Cherie got answers at MD Anderson, where she sought a second opinion. Here, doctors provided her with a 3D-printed replica...
Five years after they got married, high school sweethearts Aly and Josh Taylor felt ready to grow their family. Aly had read that sore breasts...
Kurt Gibson knows life is an amazing race. During his last semester of college, the 22-year-old ultimate Frisbee player began to notice that...
Hashmat Effendi has spent much of her life organizing teams of medical professionals from the United States to travel to various developing...
Katie Herwig was just 26 years old when a bump on her back started bothering her. She scheduled an appointment with her doctor, who removed...
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. “Acute” means that this leukemia can progress rapidly if not treated...
Patients' fertility can be affected both during cancer treatment – when an unplanned pregnancy could be a serious problem – and later, if...