In The News

Dr. Alvaro Restrepo of Texas Oncology–McAllen discusses the likelihood of being diagnosed with cancer in young adults.

Generally caught late, doctors prefer starting pancreatic cancer treatment options right away. There is a surgery using a robot that could help some pancreatic cancer patients fighting time. We met Jim Johnston during his chemotherapy treatments at Texas Oncology in Dallas.

Over the years, bone marrow transplants have become a popular treatment for leukemia. Dr. Sanjay Sethi, a Texas Oncology–Sugar Land physician, discusses transplants and the need for people to register with the national marrow database.

A recent study funded by the Cancer Research UK looks like it may lead to fewer women with a certain type of breast cancer needing chemotherapy.

Cancer patients now have a new hope with targeted therapies, recently used in clinical trials. Researchers used a combination of a pill and an injectable to try to shrink the breast cancer tumors in women.

Dr. Joyce O’Shaughnessy from Texas Oncology–Baylor Charles A. Sammons discusses strategies for targeting drivers of triple-negative breast cancer.

Charles Wakefield was surprised when Dr. Brian Berryman, his Texas Oncology physician, asked him to climb Mount Kilimanjaro for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, but was eager to participate after tackling his multiple myeloma diagnosis through chemotherapy and stem cell transplants.

Dr. Cordell Nwokeji of Texas Urology Specialists in Kingwood announced a new pioneering development in the treatmnt of prostate cancer available to Houston residents.

A woman battling Stage 4 lung cancer says she’s lived a normal life, even after she was diagnosed in June 2012.