Doctors from MD Anderson and Houston Methodist Hospital have performed what is believed to be the world’s first partial skull and scalp transplant on a man whose treatment for a rare cancer of the scalp muscle left him with a deep head wound.

During the same surgery, the patient also received a donor kidney and pancreas.

“This has been a long journey, and I am so grateful to all the doctors who performed my transplants,”...

Whole brain radiation to treat cancer that has spread to the brain is associated with significantly worse cognitive function than radiosurgery, and should no longer be used after radiosurgery to kill the cancer, according to a study led by an MD Anderson researcher.

Paul Brown, M.D., professor of Radiation Oncology, presented the results at the annual American Society for Clinical Oncology meeting held recently in Chicago....