Featured Blog
-
April 17, 2024
By Samer Charbel, MD, FACP, FACG, Chairman of Gastroenterology at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center
Colon cancer remains the third-leading cause of deaths related to cancer in the United States. While the death rate is dropping for older adults since the advent of screening, the disease is killing ...
Browse blogs by hospital
Share this
All Blogs
-
April 22, 2021
By Jonathan P. Giurintano, MD, FACS, Otolaryngology, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
For generations, head and neck cancer was largely a disease of smokers, especially smokers who also consumed alcoholic beverages. But the human papillomavirus (HPV) has expanded that disease land...
-
April 15, 2021
Testicular cancer is among the most treatable, curable cancers today—a disease that medical science has truly mastered. But it’s still a disease that the average guy prefers not to talk about, ev...
-
April 06, 2021
Do you know what and where your esophagus is? Situated just in front of the spinal cord, this muscular tube connects the mouth to the stomach. It provides a critical pathway to deliver food and d...
-
March 16, 2021
Jo Ann Boyle’s family had experienced health scares before. As wife, mother, and grandmother, Jo Ann had stood faithfully and supportively by her family as her husband Garth successfully beat can...
-
March 12, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented us with some unique challenges, especially when it comes to caring for cancer patients with compromised immune systems. It probably won’t surprise you that the...
-
March 03, 2021
By Sara E. Berkey, MD, Colon & Rectal Surgery
With increased awareness and better screening, medical science has made great strides toward preventing colorectal cancer. In general, death rates from this cancer dropped 50 percent between 1970...