For some people, especially parents, the scariest thing about Halloween is the enormous piles of candy that start popping up everywhere.
It’s not just the night itself when kids fill their buckets with treats from the neighbors. Offices and stores often have baskets of sweets that tempt for weeks afterward as well.
If you’re trying to watch your sugar intake, Halloween can be the nightmare before the holiday season begins...
I used to think I was going to be a lawyer like my father. But in Ghana, the West African country where I grew up, education is modeled after...
Many patients who are diagnosed with breast cancer will hear their doctors use the word “adjuvant” to describe certain treatment options.<...
People with a rare, inherited disorder called von Hippel Lindau disease develop cancerous and noncancerous tumors in up to 10 different parts of their bodies.
“Having von Hippel Lindau disease can be overwhelming,” says Eric Jonasch, M.D., who heads MD Anderson’s von Hippel Lindau Clinic. “Tumors recur frequently throughout your lifetime, and they could only be removed surgically – until now.”
Jonasch led a clinical trial...
When my daughter, Preslie, was eight years old, I noticed that her left eyelid seemed to be a little droopy. But I never expected it to be...
Meghan Williams can now dispel many of the myths and misconceptions she once believed about oncology nursing.
Before joining MD Anderson...
Until January 2020, I had always felt like I had an unspoken agreement with cancer: I’d make good lifestyle choices — protecting my skin,...
Almost everyone will experience a swollen lymph node at some point. That’s because these structures are designed to filter germs and other...
I had just finished breastfeeding my one-year-old in October 2017, when I felt a lump in my left breast during a shower. I knew there was...
For patients with lymphoma, multiple myeloma and leukemia, CAR T cell therapy offers an effective treatment option when traditional treatment...