Our clinical research department develops and oversees all biotechnological, basic, and translational research activities of M. D. Anderson - Orlando. Today, cancer research is making significant strides toward understanding this terrible disease, and as a result, promising new treatments for cancer are being developed.
Collaboration with M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, among the largest clinical and basic cancer research centers in the world, has permitted M. D. Anderson - Orlando to be one of the few cancer centers in the U.S. able to provide several of the newest anti-cancer agents, still under investigation, to patients coming for treatment in Orlando.
M. D. Anderson - Orlando's Cancer Research Institute conducts basic laboratory research using animal models, in vitro culture techniques, and highly sophisticated bench research technologies. The lab's purpose is to further the scope of knowledge of processes that spark cell transformation into malignant forms and perpetuate the cancer growth phenomenon in an effort to identify the many variables in retarding or ceasing the cancer process.