Why I¡¯ve devoted my career to cancer prevention
If you had told me years ago that one day all I¡¯d be doing was preventive medicine ¡ª and it would all be related to cancer ¡ª I¡¯d have said you were crazy. I am not an oncologist. My board certification is in family medicine.
Still, when I was offered the position of medical director at MD Anderson¡¯s Lyda Hill Cancer Prevention Center in 1996, I accepted. It was such a new field then that I appreciated the challenge. But I thought...
5 things women should know about cancer screening
When it comes to cancer screenings, some women might think, ¡°Well, I don¡¯t have any symptoms, so I don¡¯t need them.¡± But that¡¯s actually when...