New approach helps more smokers connect to tobacco treatment
Smoking remains the leading cause of preventable illness and death in the United States, so the health benefits of quitting are substantial. The majority of smokers are motivated to quit and more than half of all smokers attempt to quit each year. Sadly, only a small minority succeeds.
Researchers at MD Anderson are working to change this by changing the culture of how they reach self-admitted smokers with a new approach aimed...
New initiatives drive personalized cancer care via genetic analysis of tumors
Gordon Mills, M.D., Ph.D., recalls a proposal he wrote 18 years ago detailing the concept of personalized cancer therapy and its potential...
Drug is first to control recurrent low-grade ovarian cancer
A phase 2 clinical trial of a targeted therapy provides evidence that there might, at last, be a treatment that shrinks or stifles the growth...
Killer wound-healing; stress and ovarian cancer; blood vessels' bad signals
A key to the perils of endless injury repair, the molecular path from stress through a cancer-promoting gene to ovarian cancer progression, and signals by endothelial cells that strengthen colorectal cancer are among recent discoveries by MD Anderson researchers.
By uncovering these new connections, scientists expose new potential targets for fibrosis, the lethal scarring of organs, and...