MD Anderson has a clear mission: to end cancer. However, our efforts go far beyond our campuses in the Greater Houston area. To make the biggest impact, we’re making our expertise and care more accessible to the providers, patients and communities who need it most.
Achieving a future without cancer requires that we work together – locally, nationally and globally. MD Anderson’s Global Oncology Program collaborates with governments...
Liver cancer is one of the most quickly increasing types of cancer in the United States due to a poor lifestyle causing obesity, diabetes,...
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 who inherit one of these gene mutations will have a higher-than-average lifetime risk of developing cancer.
Because most cancer cases aren’t genetic, not every patient needs genetic counseling and testing is not for every patient.
“That’s why it’s important for health care providers...
When Cherie Sanders’ doctor in Amarillo diagnosed her with breast cancer, he described her tumor as “5 centimeters by 2.5 centimeters” and...
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...