Changing the way the world fights
"Cancer, we’re fighting you one cell at a time."
Dr. Padmanee Sharma | Cancer Physician & Scientist | ImmunotherapyImagine the body using its own natural defenses to fight cancer. Now imagine a team of highly educated, highly motivated medical experts putting all their efforts into making this a model of cancer therapy for years to come. That’s the reality we are working on at MD Anderson. Immunotherapy, also called biotherapy or biological response modifiers, works on white blood cells, stimulating them in various ways to boost the body’s immune system and fight the invading cancer. Yet another innovative treatment working wonders for our patients.
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"Cancer, my job is stopping you from starting."
Dr. Karen Lu | Cancer Physician & Researcher | Genetic TherapyGenetic Therapy is a treatment in which researchers at MD Anderson use healthy genes within someone’s body to help treat or even prevent cancer. They do this in one of several ways – it can be in the form of replacing a diseased gene with a healthy one, taking out the mutated gene altogether or introducing a new gene to help fight the cancer. All with the same goal: get rid of the cancer.
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"Cancer, you won’t get me."
Yvonne Cosgrove | Cancer Prevention Patient | Genetic TestingDid you know that about five to ten percent of cancers are inherited? This simply means that mutations in specific genes are passed from one blood relative to another. However, anyone who inherits one of these genes is at a greater risk of developing cancer. Because these people are predisposed to developing cancer, MD Anderson is at the forefront of figuring out how to prevent such an event from happening and is stringently at work developing tests for these cancers as well as counseling for patients.
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"My team will get you, cancer."
Dr. Sapna Patel | Cancer Physician & ResearcherDr. Patel has always been fascinated with skin. “I always liked the skin. So it seems natural for me to be fighting melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer and one of the most aggressive types of cancer out there.” When Dr. Patel began, there were hardly any effective therapies for advanced melanoma. Even chemotherapy was not effective for the type of rare melanoma Dr. Patel treated: Melanoma of the eye.
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