Cancer Treatment


Advances in Treating Head and Neck Cancers

Advances in surgical techniques, specifically minimally invasive surgical techniques, allow surgeons to remove many more tumors.

April 25, 2016 / 3 min read


Roundup: CDC Confirms Zika Link to Birth...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that there is a link between birth defects and the Zika virus — a mosquito-carried illness.

April 15, 2016 / 3 min read


Bald Is Beautiful Project Delivers Hope to...

A “badge of honor,” that’s how 17-year-old cancer patient Raquel Coronell refers to the baldness that many chemotherapy patients must endure. Coronell has been battling...

March 25, 2016 / 1 min read


Relay for Life 2016 at Baptist Hospital...

The "Survivors and Caregivers Lap", as it is officially called, was held in the foreground of the Miami Cancer Institute, the $430 million state-of-the-art facility...

March 14, 2016 / 1 min read


WATCH NOW: Rides ‘n Smiles for Baptist...

More than 40 Baptist Children's Hospital's patients were treated to rides around Homestead-Miami Speedway in high-performance sports cars at an event hosted recently by the...

March 11, 2016 / 1 min read


Relay for Life 2016: Uniting to Fight...

Cancer survivors and caregivers will receive much-deserved fanfare as they make that special lap during this year’s Relay for Life of East Kendall on Saturday,...

March 8, 2016 / 3 min read


Roundup: New ‘T Cell Therapy’ Shows Promise...

An experimental -- and potentially groundbreaking -- new treatment to fight cancer modifies and re-deploys the body's own immune-system cells in terminally ill patients.

February 19, 2016 / 3 min read


Cancer Treatment and Exercise 101

Cancer, by definition, is a group of diseases characterized by the uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells resulting from damage to DNA by internal...

February 11, 2016 / 3 min read


Miami Cancer Institute Joins Memorial Sloan Kettering...

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health South Florida announce the beginning of a dynamic and forward-thinking collaboration aimed...

February 10, 2016 / 3 min read


Genetic Testing for Cancer: Facts and Benefits

About 12 times a week, Jessica Ordonez, a certified genetic counselor with Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health South Florida, meets one-on-one with patients who...

January 6, 2016 / 4 min read