Cancer Research


Early-Age Breast Cancer: What Young Women Need...

(VIDEO: Starr Mautner, M.D., a breast surgeon at Miami Cancer Institute, discusses treatments for breast cancer in young women.) Women who are diagnosed with breast cancer...

April 27, 2016 / 3 min read


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


Tennis Fans: Wear Sunscreen to Protect Skin

Thousands of tennis fans soak up bright sunshine and match play at the Miami Open this week, it's likely many of them are getting too...

March 27, 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


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


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