Patient Power A large number of cancer patients who undergo radiation therapy experience radiation-induced fatigue. Steven Miller, M.D. , radiation oncologist and member of the Genitourinary , Gynecologic , Pediatric , Sarcoma , and Thoracic Oncology Multidisciplinary Teams (MDT) at Karmanos, shared why this fatigue happens during radiation treatment, how long it may last once this portion of the treatment plan is finished, and how to manage fatigue from radiation therapy. Read the arti...
Hour Detroit’s 2024 Top Docs List is out; over 50 physicians from the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute are listed. Each year, Hour Detroit Magazine puts out an online peer-to-peer review survey conducted by Professional Research Services (PRS) to determine the top physicians in southeastern Michigan. Participating physicians in Livingston, Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw, and Wayne Counties nominate the best doctors in each field. This year’s list also includes a feature with Elisabeth...
Radiopharmaceutical therapy (RPT) is a revolutionary treatment that targets metastasized tumors at the cellular level, reducing radiation exposure to normal, healthy tissue and reducing significant side effects – a possibility that occurs with conventional external radiation therapies. “RPT uses radioisotope therapy in the process of delivering the radiation intravenously to cancer cells by adding radioactive material, or radionuclides, to proteins that bind with the receptors on the cancer cells, destr...