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Chemoprevention: Helping Patients Understand the Benefits
With chemoprevention medications proven to decrease breast cancer risk by 50 to 60 percent, Miami Cancer Institute experts are urging those with certain risk factors to take part in the Making Informed Choices on Incorporating Chemoprevention into Care (MiCHOICE) trial.
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Miami Cancer Institute Expert Co-Leads Research Effort Using Advanced Multi-omics Platform that Predicts Superior Overall Survival and Disease-Free Survival for Brain Cancer Patients
Manmeet Ahluwalia, M.D., M.B.A., deputy director, chief scientific officer and chief of solid tumor medical oncology at Miami Cancer Institute, and co-principal investigators of the trial, was featured in the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting during the Central Nervous System Tumors Track
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Experts Weigh in on Innovations in Treatment of Lung Cancer
Baptist Health South Florida’s Miami Cancer Institute lung cancer experts Rupesh Kotecha, M.D., chief of Radiosurgery and director of the CNS Metastasis Program, and Mark Dylewski, M.D., chief of general thoracic surgery, are featured presenters at the American Lung Association’s upcoming LUNG FORCE expo. We asked them for a sneak peek at their topics.
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Dr. Guenther Koehne Talks Hot Topics in Hematology at the Miami Cancer Institute Summit
Dr. Guenther Koehne, Deputy Director and Chief of Blood & Marrow Transplant and Hematologic Oncology at Miami Cancer Institute, part of Baptist Health South Florida, spoke about the Second Summit of the Americas on Immunotherapy for Hematologic Malignancies and some of the hot topics being covered at this event.
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Q&A with Surgeons of Excellence at South Miami Hospital
What does it mean to be SRC accredited? Why do surgeons use robots in surgery? Surgeons of Excellence with South Miami Hospital sit down to discuss the significance of an SRC accreditation and the benefits of robotic surgery for patients.
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Father of Five and Military Veteran Wins Battle Over Throat Cancer
Fred Escobedo remembers feeling surprised when he was told he had throat cancer. After all, he seemed healthy, exercised regularly, didn’t smoke and followed his wife’s vegan diet. When the shock passed, he wondered if he’d live to see his five sons, ages 8 to 17, grow up.
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Making Clinical Trials More Accessible to All a Top Priority at Miami Cancer Institute
For cancer patients who have complex cancers with limited options or who have exhausted all other treatment options, clinical trials can be a beacon of hope. Such studies offer often-desperate patients access to new, potentially lifesaving therapies that are years away from being available to anyone else.
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Milestone: Teen is 1,000th Patient Treated with Proton Therapy at Baptist Health’s Miami Cancer Institute
When Emma-Jane Hinton was diagnosed with a brain tumor this past summer, she dreamed about the day she could go back to school, take a swim and return to her Junior Bengals cheerleading team. Last week, the teen’s dream came true as she rang the bell at Baptist Health’s Miami Cancer Institute, signifying the end of her treatment, the return to life--and a cure.
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100th Transplant Patient Milestone: Miami Cancer Institute’s Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program is Growing Fast
Miami Cancer Institute has marked the 100th patient of its Blood and Marrow Transplantation program, where patients are treated for various forms of leukemia, multiple myeloma and other blood cancers.
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Baptist Health’s Miami Cancer Institute Brings World-Class Cancer Care to Broward
Many of the innovative cancer-fighting therapies that have placed Baptist Health’s Miami Cancer Institute among Florida’s top cancer programs since its founding just four years ago are now available to cancer patients in Broward County, according to Michael J. Zinner, M.D., the institute’s founding CEO and executive medical director.
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Two Leading Organizations Come Together for Better Cancer Care
With 11 hospitals, more than 4,000 physicians and internationally renowned centers of excellence in cancer, cardiovascular care, orthopedics and sports medicine, and neurosciences, Baptist Health South Florida is the largest healthcare organization in the region. Physicians are accustomed to working with healthcare providers throughout Florida, the United States and abroad.
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Miami Cancer Institute Researchers Pivot to Fight COVID-19
Physician scientists at Miami Cancer Institute are leveraging their research expertise and clinical technology to develop novel treatments for COVID-19. Jump-starting new studies in a matter of weeks, these researchers are now evaluating the effectiveness of existing cancer drugs, umbilical cord blood and convalescent plasma, among other therapies, against the coronavirus.