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...
The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute’s fourth annual Prostate Cancer Awareness Night with the Detroit Tigers and McLaren Health Care, the official health care system of the Tigers, was a home run on Monday, July 8. Hundreds of prostate cancer survivors and their loved ones were brought together under the lights of Comerica Park as the Detroit Tigers beat their division rival, the Cleveland Guardians. This awareness game also provided crucial information on early detection, highlighted the importanc...
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...