M.D. Anderson Cancer Center News

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center's top nursing executive has been recognized with nursing's highest honor.

Registration is now open for the Society of Interventional Radiology's "Image-guided Interventional Oncology Therapies" Webinar, which will provide the latest updates on percutaneous and transcatheter treatment of liver tumors, kidney tumor ablation and lung tumor ablation.

Correspondence: Dr DJ McConkey, Departments of Urology and Cancer Biology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Box 173, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

Green tea extract has shown promise as cancer prevention agent for oral cancer in patients with a pre-malignant condition known as oral leukoplakia, according to researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Early-stage breast cancer patients with HER2 positive tumors one centimeter or smaller are at significant risk of recurrence of their disease, compared to those with early-stage disease who do not express the aggressive protein, according to a study led by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Some of the major cancer centers across the country, including MD Anderson, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, now offer their patients yoga as a complementary therapy in an effort to provide a more integrative approach to care.

Back in the 1970s, while watching an angioplasty to widen clogged coronary arteries, John Simpson, Ph.D., M.D., thought there had to be an easier way to perform the procedure.

A specific type of T helper cell awakens the immune system to the stealthy threat of cancer and triggers an attack of killer T cells custom-made to destroy the tumors, scientists from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the early online edition of the journal Immunity.

Autoimmune disease has devastating consequences for healthy tissue. Now, in mice, the same cells that can drive the body to destroy its own tissue have been used to fight cancer .

Main Category: Breast Cancer Also Included In: Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine ; Colorectal Cancer ; Preventive Medicine Article Date: 28 Oct 2009 - 0:00 PDT Drawing on years of experience in cancer research and patient care, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have just released the most comprehensive, risk-based screening ...

The first decision most patients make after the emotional jolt of a breast cancer diagnosis is the surgeon they'll consult.

Drawing on years of experience in cancer research and patient care, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center released today the most comprehensive, risk-based screening guidelines publicly available to date for breast, cervical and colorectal cancers.

Jan-Ake Gustafsson was the first big-name scientist recruited by the University of Houston for its health initiative, but if things go according to plan, the Swedish researcher soon will be joined by other research rock stars.

Hannah Powell-Auslam of La Mirada, California, had surgery this month to check her lymph nodes, just in case the breast cancer had spread.

M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has a mission statement, and everyone who works there, from the president to the cleaning crews, can state it like a catechism: to "eliminate cancer in Texas, the nation and the world." Forty Years' War The Front Line Articles in this series examine the struggle to defeat cancer.

E-mail: anbartley@mdanderson.org Received 16 June 2009; Revised 9 September 2009; Accepted 15 September 2009; Published online 23 October 2009.

Share + Oct 22, 2009 11:55 am US/Central 1 of 1 Former President George W. Bush introduces his wife Laura at a fundraising event in Dallas for the MD Anderson Cancer Center.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and breast experts from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center agree that getting breast implants does not increase a woman's breast cancer risks or prevent her from getting accurate mammogram test results.

Editor's note: This is part of a monthlong series on the battle against cancer. Erma Fee's small frame fits easily into the beige recliner in the cancer care unit at Mercy Hospital Farfield.

Sanofi-aventis U.S. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted marketing approval for ElitekA to be used for the initial management of plasma uric acid levels in adult patients with leukemia, lymphoma, and solid tumor malignancies who are receiving anti-cancer therapy expected to result in tumor lysis syndrome and subsequent ...