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University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Index University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (colloquially MD Anderson) is one of the original three comprehensive cancer centers in the United States. [1]

58 relations: Albuquerque, New Mexico, American City Business Journals, American Nurses Credentialing Center, Arizona, Bank, Baylor College of Medicine, Cancer, Charles LeMaistre, Clear Lake (region), Cotton, Dosimetry, Financial endowment, Genomics, Gilbert, Arizona, Greater Houston, Harris County, Texas, Houston, Houston Chronicle, Houston Main Building, Inheritance tax, Internship (medicine), Istanbul, Jackson, Tennessee, James Lewis Abbruzzese, John McGinness, John Mendelsohn (doctor), Katy, Texas, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, KUHF, Madrid, Medical imaging, Monroe Dunaway Anderson, Montgomery County, Texas, Nassau Bay, Texas, National Cancer Institute, NCI-designated Cancer Center, Pan American Health Organization, Phoenix metropolitan area, Postdoctoral researcher, Proteomics, Proton therapy, Radhe Mohan, Radiation therapy, Residency (medicine), Ronald A. DePinho, Sugar Land, Texas, T. Boone Pickens, Texas, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Texas Legislature, ..., Texas Medical Center, The Woodlands, Texas, Translational research, Turkey, United States, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, University of Texas System, War on Cancer. Expand index (8 more) »

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque (Beeʼeldííl Dahsinil; Arawageeki; Vakêêke; Gołgéeki) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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American City Business Journals

"." Houston Business Journal.

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American Nurses Credentialing Center

The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association (ANA), is a certification body for nursing board certification and the largest certification body for advanced practice registered nurses in the United States, certifying over 75,000 APRNs, including nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.

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Bank

A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates credit.

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Baylor College of Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas, US, is a health sciences university.

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Cancer

Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.

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Charles LeMaistre

Charles Aubrey "Mickey" LeMaistre (February 10, 1924 – January 28, 2017) was an American physician, medical educator, and academic administrator who served as chancellor of the University of Texas System from 1971 to 1978 and as president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center from 1978 to 1996.

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Clear Lake (region)

Clear Lake, or the Clear Lake Area, is a region in parts of Harris and Galveston County in Texas, United States.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Dosimetry

Radiation dosimetry in the fields of health physics and radiation protection is the measurement, calculation and assessment of the ionizing radiation dose absorbed by the human body.

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Financial endowment

A financial endowment is a donation of money or property to a nonprofit organization for the ongoing support of that organization.

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Genomics

Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of science focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes.

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Gilbert, Arizona

Gilbert is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, located southeast of Phoenix, within the Phoenix metropolitan area.

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Greater Houston

Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land is the fifth most populous metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States, encompassing nine counties along the Gulf Coast in southeastern Texas.

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Harris County, Texas

Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.

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Houston Chronicle

The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Houston Main Building

The Houston Main Building (HMB)"." University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

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Inheritance tax

A tax paid by a person who inherits money or property or a levy on the estate (money and property) of a person who has died.

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Internship (medicine)

Medical intern is a term used in some countries to describe a physician in training who has completed medical school and has a medical degree, but does not yet have a full license to practice medicine unsupervised.

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Istanbul

Istanbul (or or; İstanbul), historically known as Constantinople and Byzantium, is the most populous city in Turkey and the country's economic, cultural, and historic center.

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Jackson, Tennessee

Jackson is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Tennessee.

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James Lewis Abbruzzese

James Lewis Abbruzzese is the Chief of the Duke Division of Medical Oncology and Associate Director for Clinical Research for the Duke Cancer Institute.

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John McGinness

John Edward McGinness (born November 19, 1943), is an American physicist and physician.

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John Mendelsohn (doctor)

John Mendelsohn (born August 31, 1936) is a former president of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

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Katy, Texas

Katy is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within the Houston–Katy-Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area.

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Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (خليفة بن زايد بن سلطان آل نهيان; born 7 September 1948; referred to as Sheikh Khalifa) is the President of the United Arab Emirates, the Emir of Abu Dhabi and the Supreme Commander of the Union Defence Force.

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KUHF

KUHF (branded as News 88.7) is a public radio station serving Greater Houston metropolitan area.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital of Spain and the largest municipality in both the Community of Madrid and Spain as a whole.

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Medical imaging

Medical imaging is the technique and process of creating visual representations of the interior of a body for clinical analysis and medical intervention, as well as visual representation of the function of some organs or tissues (physiology).

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Monroe Dunaway Anderson

Monroe Dunaway Anderson (1873–1939) was a banker and cotton trader from Jackson, Tennessee.

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Montgomery County, Texas

Montgomery County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Nassau Bay, Texas

Nassau Bay is a city in Harris County, Texas, United States, bordering the southeastern edge of the city of Houston.

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National Cancer Institute

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of eleven agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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NCI-designated Cancer Center

NCI-designated Cancer Centers are a group of 70 cancer research institutions in the United States supported by the National Cancer Institute.

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Pan American Health Organization

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO; originally the Pan-American Sanitary Bureau) is an international public health agency working to improve health and living standards of the people of the Americas.

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Phoenix metropolitan area

The Phoenix Metropolitan Area – often referred to as the Valley of the Sun, the Salt River Valley or Metro Phoenix – is a metropolitan area, centered on the city of Phoenix, that includes much of the central part of the U.S. State of Arizona.

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Postdoctoral researcher

A postdoctoral researcher or postdoc is a person professionally conducting research after the completion of their doctoral studies (typically a PhD).

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Proteomics

Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins.

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Proton therapy

In the field of medical procedures, Proton therapy, or proton beam therapy is a type of particle therapy that uses a beam of protons to irradiate diseased tissue, most often in the treatment of cancer.

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Radhe Mohan

Radhe Mohan is a medical physicist who significantly advanced radiation treatment safety for oncology patients.

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Radiation therapy

Radiation therapy or radiotherapy, often abbreviated RT, RTx, or XRT, is therapy using ionizing radiation, generally as part of cancer treatment to control or kill malignant cells and normally delivered by a linear accelerator.

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Residency (medicine)

Residency is a stage of graduate medical training.

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Ronald A. DePinho

Ronald A. DePinho, was the fourth president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and is internationally recognized for basic and translational research in cancer, aging and age-associated degenerative disorders.

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Sugar Land, Texas

Sugar Land is a city in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, within the southeast metropolitan area.

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T. Boone Pickens

Thomas Boone Pickens Jr. (born May 22, 1928), known as T. Boone Pickens, is an American business magnate and financier. Pickens chairs the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate raider during the 1980s. As of November 2016, Pickens has a net worth of $500 million.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine

In 1977, members of the College of Medicine's charter class of 32 students began their medical training on Texas A&M University's campus.

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Texas Legislature

The Legislature of the state of Texas is the state legislature of Texas.

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Texas Medical Center

The Texas Medical Center (TMC) is a medical district and neighborhood in south-central Houston, Texas, immediately south of the Museum District and west of Texas State Highway 288.

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The Woodlands, Texas

The Woodlands is a master planned community and census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Texas in the metropolitan area.

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Translational research

Translational research – often used interchangeably with translational medicine or translational science or bench to bedside – is an effort to build on basic scientific research to create new therapies, medical procedures, or diagnostics.

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Turkey

Turkey (Türkiye), officially the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) was created in 1972 by The UT System Board of Regents.

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University of Texas System

The University of Texas System (UT System) encompasses 14 educational institutions in the U.S. state of Texas, of which eight are academic universities and six are health institutions.

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War on Cancer

The War on Cancer refers to the effort to find a cure for cancer by increased research to improve the understanding of cancer biology and the development of more effective cancer treatments, such as targeted drug therapies.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_MD_Anderson_Cancer_Center

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