Arlene Holden’s family knows all too well that cancer touches everyone. Over the past two decades, Arlene’s daughters, Gayle Kuoni and Lerryn Carl, both faced their cancer diagnoses. For Gayle, treatment was effective and gave her a positive outcome, but for Lerryn, there was devastatingly little that could be done.
First in memory of Lerryn’s life, and then later in honor of Gayle’s recovery, Arlene established four endowed...
Current screening guidelines suggest that everyone should get their first colonoscopy at age 45 if they are at average risk for colon cancer...
A woman could have her fallopian tubes removed for any number of reasons. Sometimes, it’s necessary to treat an ectopic pregnancy or to resolve...
In December 2021, Luke Miller went to the emergency room because of pain in his side. An ultrasound revealed a small spot on his liver. Two weeks later, an MRI revealed 15 lesions on his liver.
Luke was a healthy 40-year-old with no previous health issues. He and his wife, Sarah, both worked in education in Des Moines, Iowa, and they had three young children. The idea of Luke having cancer was terrifying.
“I remember after...
If you know someone going through cancer treatment, you might feel eager to help, but not quite sure what to do.
Should you offer them...
As a member of the MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors (BOV), Vijay Goradia has been a long-time supporter of MD Anderson. But in...
If you’ve never heard of a fecal microbiota transplant before, the concept might seem a bit startling at first.
But transferring...
After a Mardi Gras parade in February 2019, Taylor Fradella-Doucet noticed some soreness in her thigh, but she chalked it up to evidence of...
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has been an amazing advance for treating blood cancers like leukemia, lymphoma and multiple...
Liver cancer is one of the most quickly increasing types of cancer in the United States due to a poor lifestyle causing obesity, diabetes,...
Our cells can die in many ways, one of which is ferroptosis. Recent studies reveal that ferroptosis plays a significant role in tumor suppression...
Single-cell sequencing transformed our ability to study cells individually and with much higher resolution, giving us a clearer picture of...
Tertiary lymphoid structures are highly organized clusters of immune cells that form in non-lymphoid tissues. They’re often found at sites...
Pets can provide emotional support, companionship and stress relief during cancer treatment. But cancer patients should exercise caution when...
You may already know that people tend to feel loved best when friends and family show affection in the ways that they find the most meaningful...
I’ve been diagnosed with six different cancers over the last 50 years: testicular, prostate, leukemia, bladder, pancreatic and kidney. All...
Neurofibromatosis is a collection of three different genetic disorders that cause fibrous tumors to form around nerves in the body. Neurofibromatosis...
Oral thrush is a fungal infection of the mouth often caused by an overgrowth of Candida albicans. But why do people receiving cancer treatment...
My husband, Donald, and I had been dating for less than a year in June 2010, when he was diagnosed with B-cell lymphoma, a type of non-Hodgkin...
When Josephine Spence experienced a sudden, agonizing pain in her right calf, her husband and daughter urged her to go to the hospital right...