When I first went to medical school, I thought I’d be a cardiologist. My dad was very sick with heart disease while I was growing up, so I spent a lot of time in the hospital. I saw how the cardiologists treated him and other patients, and I wanted to heal people in the same way.
But once I actually got to medical school, I found that I was more interested in following pathology specimens to the lab to find out what my patients...

Suzanne Moilanen has lived in six countries in the last 30 years. And while she enjoyed living abroad, it also allowed her to get complacent...
It's not unusual for a patient to arrive at MD Anderson with one
diagnosis and leave with a different one.
For example,
when approximately...
A growing incidence of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), mostly in
older adults, has sent researchers and clinicians scrambling for
answers to the biology and treatment of this group of serious blood
disorders.
Below, Guillermo Garcia-Manero, M.D.,
answers questions about MDS.
What is MDS?
It's a
very complex group of hematological disorders characterized by
progressive peripheral blood...
