Fellowship-Trained Surgeons in Breast Care

It has become increasingly important that women be proactive in their own breast health and seek specialty care for cancer, which has excellent outcomes when detected early. Breast cancer, with the exception of skin cancer, is the most common cancer in women and second only to lung cancer in the number of deaths each year. [...]

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St. Jude Child Life: Helping Hands for Patients and Families

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital child life specialists collaborate closely with the patients, medical team and parents to make especially trying times as smooth and “normal” as possible for children struggling with cancer. On the Good Health cover this month, patient Katelyn Atwell’s shares some of her interaction with child life through the artistic interpretation of [...]

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House Call - Breast Cancer

This week we speak with Dr. Donald S. Gravenor about Breast Cancer. Question: Are there any pills that can prevent breast cancer? Answer: Breast cancer prevention is best directed against women who are at increased risk of developing cancer. Genetic forms of breast cancer predisposition are largely managed surgically as well as medically. When postmenopausal women who [...]

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Setting the Record Straight:Common Misconceptions About Cancer

Family Cancer Center Cancer is a scary subject. As a hematologist (blood disorder specialist) and oncologist (cancer specialist), I treat patients everyday and find myself fielding their questions. Interestingly enough, I find that many questions hold common misconceptions about cancer and that I hear similar questions frequently.

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Quality Living with Cancer: The Vital Spine

Semmes-Murphey Neurologic & Spine Institute The National Cancer Institute estimates that there are currently 10.8 million cancer survivors living in the United States, which is an astounding 3.7 percent of the population. Fourteen percent of these long-term survivors were diagnosed over twenty years ago. That’s great news and speaks to better awareness and prevention, [...]

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Newest Radiation Therapy at Methodist Hospital Zaps Tumors with Pinpoint Precision

Methodist Hospital Memphis, Tenn. – Henry McFall of Savannah, Tenn., was the first patient to undergo stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), the most advanced radiation treatment to target tumors, at Methodist University Hospital. He had a tumor wrapped around a vertebra in his thoracic spine that was causing him excruciating pain.

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