Learn about how radiation therapy is used at Karmanos Cancer Institute to target and treat cancer.
O’Laya Rodgers probably was the most excited teenager to enter Madison High School this fall. She had to take off a year and a half of school as she battled bone cancer. Now, she’s looking forward to prom and graduation. While Rodgers was celebrating her 16 th birthday, a mass in her left knee changed her life. Two months later, during her sophomore year, she was diagnosed with sarcoma of her bone and started chemotherapy within days. Then radiation therapy was added. Later, she had a distal femoral rep...
“When she comes here, she’s always glowing." Bears, chocolate cake, donuts and lemonade – the Gershenson Radiation Oncology Center (ROC) at Karmanos Cancer Center in Detroit definitely looked different than a normal day. It was a party fit for Isabella Jade Hanson wearing her new Mickey Mouse ears, just one year after her cancer diagnosis. “You’re the best thing ever! You know that?” questioned Rakhi Kaila, M.D., as she hugged Isabella tight. Dr. Kaila, a radiation oncology resident through Wayne...