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The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute has been named one of America’s 2025 Best Hospitals for Cancer Care, Mammogram Imaging, Minimally Invasive Surgery, and Patient Experience by the Women’s Choice Award ® , America’s trusted referral source for the best in health care. This is the 12 th consecutive year Karmanos has been recognized by the Women’s Choice Award® since the inception of the national list. “It is an honor to be awarded the Women’s Choice Award. This recognition reflects the except...

From a young age, music has been a big part of Sierra Watson’s life. In seventh grade, she started playing the bassoon. It became a passion of hers, and she decided to make it a career path, studying music for her higher education degree. “I am now a doctoral student at Michigan State University [MSU] and a member of the MSU Bassoon Studio,” said Watson. “After high school, I decided to go to college to focus on music and got my bachelor’s degree and then I came to MSU for the master’s program and loved...

MedPage Today Dipesh Uprety, M.D., FACP , medical oncologist, member of the  Phase I Clinical Trials  and  Thoracic Oncology  Multidisciplinary Teams, and member of the  Molecular Therapeutics Research Program  at Karmanos, was the lead investigator on a study titled, “Racial and socioeconomic disparities in survival among patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer,” published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Uprety explained to MedPage Today so...

WDET 101.9 FM The Surgeon General released the Alcohol and Cancer Risk advisory at the beginning of January and suggests the link needs to be included on alcohol bottles. Najeeb Al Hallak, M.D., MS , medical oncologist and co-leader of the  Gastrointestinal and Neuroendocrine Oncology Multidisciplinary Team  at Karmanos, joined WDET’s The Metro to discuss the proposed label. Dr. Al Hallak explained that alcohol causes around 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 cancer deaths a year and how he think...

The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute welcomes José Larios, M.D. , transplant hematologist. Dr. Larios is a member of the Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant and Hematology Oncology Multidisciplinary Teams at Karmanos. He specializes in treating leukemia and lymphoma blood cancers, including Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphomas. He began seeing patients at the Karmanos Cancer Center in Detroit in August 2024. "Karmanos Cancer Institute is an NCI (National Cancer Institute)-Designated Comprehensive Can...

“You never know the power of the words ‘My name is Lisa, and I’ll be your nurse today.’” Lisa Zajac, now the Director of Clinical Informatics for McLaren Health Care had earlier in her career served as a bedside nurse on the bone marrow transplant unit at Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, which at the time cared for pediatric patients. It was there she first met the Jackson family. Nearly 23 years later, the bond created at their first meeting was strengthened through the immediate emotional journey...

In 2018, Mary Jo Dorotinsky learned she had cancer in her right breast. “I actually went in for a mammogram a few months late when they discovered a very small tumor,” Mary Jo said. “It felt like fate. The doctor told me that if I had gone in on schedule, they might have missed the lump because it was so small.” Mary Jo had a lumpectomy and traditional photon radiation to treat the stage one cancer.  When her treatments were over, her doctor recommended Mary Jo alternate between a mammogram and MRI...

The holidays can sometimes be a challenging time for families battling cancer. While they should be focused on joy and togetherness, they are often burdened by the emotional toll that cancer can take. To help bring some joy to these families’ lives, Karmanos Cancer Institute has begun hosting Evening with the Elves, an event centered around families battling cancer that provides an evening to relax and enjoy all the holidays have to offer. Evening with the Elves is in its second year and has boasted a l...

Becker’s Hospital Review The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute is the first in the world to prescribe the TheraBionic P1 device , an at-home treatment for adults with advanced liver cancer. The device was approved by the FDA in September 2023 for adult patients who have failed first- and second-line treatments. Read the article here . Click here to learn more about the TheraBonic P1 device.

Patient Power Currently, multiple myeloma (MM) is uncurable, so oncologists try to find treatment options that will control the disease. Abhinav Deol, M.D. , hematologist, medical oncologist, and member of the  Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant ,  Hematology Oncology  and  Multiple Myeloma and Amyloidosis  Multidisciplinary Teams at Karmanos, explained the success rates for using CAR T cell therapy to treat MM or stem cell transplantation. Read the article here .