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Do patients really need opioid painkillers after colorectal surgery?

May 13, 2020 Colorectal Cancer,  Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center,  Debbie Sugarbaker,  Healthcare,  Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery,  opioids

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

February 25, 2020 Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center,  Gastroenterology,  Healthcare,  liver cancer,  liver disease,  Nicole Blanton

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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The Stitch

Reconstruction procedure gives breast cancer survivor new outlook

February 21, 2020 Breast Cancer,  breast reconstruction,  Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center,  Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center,  Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery

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

February 13, 2020 Cancer,  cervical cancer,  Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center,  Molly Chiu,  Radiation Oncology

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

January 29, 2020 Cancer,  cervical cancer,  Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center,  gynecologic cancer,  Healthcare,  Nicole Blanton

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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Stomach cancer survivor becomes ‘Mrs. Texas’

November 21, 2019 Cancer,  Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center,  Healthcare,  Surgery,  surgical oncology

In 2015, Chesney Berzins was diagnosed with gastric carcinoma, or stomach cancer. Her diagnosis came after the discovery that Chesney and her family are afflicted

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Immunotherapy improves quality of life for mesothelioma patient

November 19, 2019 Cancer,  Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center,  Healthcare,  Immunotherapy,  Mesothelioma,  Molly Chiu

When Samir Tanios was diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma in September 2018, he was in poor condition. He couldn’t take a deep breath  or walk

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Momentum

From one human to another: Empathy 101

November 6, 2019 Cancer,  Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center,  Empathy,  Healthcare

Empathy is both an interesting and important element of healthcare. Displaying emotions was once taught to be an unacceptable weakness. However, in the ever-evolving field

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What is the role of genetic counseling in breast cancer care?

October 31, 2019 Breast Cancer,  Cancer,  Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center,  Genetic counseling,  Healthcare,  Nicole Blanton

When actress Angelina Jolie revealed that she was a carrier of a genetic mutation that increases her risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer,

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Know your risk for ovarian cancer

October 10, 2019 Cancer,  Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center,  Healthcare,  Nicole Blanton,  obstetrics and gynecology,  ovarian cancer

While ovarian cancer is considered to be a relatively rare disease, it is also the most lethal gynecologic cancer, causing more deaths than any other

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Blood vessels (magenta) intertwined with metastatic medulloblastoma tumor cells (green) nestled within the protective layers that surround the mouse spinal cord. From the Labs: a closer look at metastatic medulloblastoma

Healthy Habits: A DOC-umentary Series

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