Resilience Through COVID-19: Caring for cancer patients during a pandemic
Dr. Mothaffar Rimawi shares how the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center continues to treat patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Research focuses on improving paradigm of cancer caregiving
What is the role of the caregiver? Dr. Hoda Badr discusses her research and shares advice for families.
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Cancer and cannabis: What patients need to know
Dr. Charu Agrawal, a palliative care specialist at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, shares suggestions for cancer patients who are interested in cannabis.
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Mesothelioma and COVID-19: Don’t skip screening and treatment
Dr. R. Taylor Ripley urges patients to continue health screenings for mesothelioma and other diseases during COVID-19.
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Living with, through and beyond colorectal cancer
I came to Baylor College of Medicine in 2005 and worked diligently in a cancer research lab, a job I was passionate about. However, it
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Do patients really need opioid painkillers after colorectal surgery?
Although the opioid epidemic in the United States is currently overshadowed by the urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic, the danger of highly addictive opioid medications
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Understanding fatty liver disease key to liver cancer prevention
As the number of Americans who are living with chronic liver disease continues to rise, researchers and clinicians are not only studying more effective treatments,
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Reconstruction procedure gives breast cancer survivor new outlook
Ten years ago, when Judy Howell was fundraising for the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center at Baylor College of Medicine, she had no idea
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Doctors team up with students to improve cervical cancer treatment
For women with advanced cases of cervical cancer, radiation therapy is generally the only curative treatment. The treatment of cervical cancer is unique, in that,
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HPV and cervical cancer: Vaccination leads to prevention
Close to 80 million Americans are infected with human papillomavirus (HPV), making it the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. While HPV
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