James Smith

As we discussed in an April 24, 2015 article on the MTV IR website, the use of radiation therapy is widespread in the treatment of cancer, so much so that over half of US cancer patients are treated...

The late Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert once quipped, "The Internet is wonderful…you can find information about anything there. And some of it is even true." In no area of life is this...

One of the first questions that people ask us when they see that our practice is named MTV IR is, "What is IR?" Well, radiology uses visualization technologies such as ultrasound, X-ray fluoroscopy...

TIPS – the Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt – is a specialized medical procedure that uses image-guided, interventional radiology (IR) to reduce portal hypertension, a condition that...

Liver cancer, with over 35,000 new cases diagnosed in America every year, is notoriously difficult to treat, because all too often it is discovered at a late stage in which surgical removal of the...

Breast cancer is one of our country's biggest health care problems. A woman is diagnosed with breast cancer in America every three minutes, and at least one woman (and a surprising number of men) dies...

The physiology of pain is a huge subject, and has far too many aspects to be covered in a short article like this one. On the one hand, pain is useful because it tells us that we're doing something...

Among the over 35,000 patients diagnosed with liver cancer in America every year, fewer than 40% of them are candidates for surgical resection of their tumors. This may be because the tumors are too...

When you are diagnosed with liver cancer, you start a unique journey, and one that can often feel very lonely. But it doesn't have to be. If you are being treated by some of the best liver cancer...

The tumors characteristic of liver cancer are often too large or too numerous to remove via surgery or too invasive (meaning that they have worked their way into important arteries) to allow surgical...

One of the reasons that MTV IR is known for offering some of the best liver cancer treatment in Dallas is the facility we have chosen as our base of operations. Established in April, 2014, the Walnut...

If your doctors have referred you to the specialists at MTV IR for treating liver cancer in Dallas, you probably have a number of questions about what Interventional Radiology (IR) is and what to...

When a person is told he or she has cancer, the first priority becomes to find the best possible medical care and treatment and doctors who will help the patient fight the disease and lead a healthy...

The field of medicine has seen tremendous advances in recent decades, but few have had more of an effect on oncology – the treatment of cancer – than the relatively new field of interventional...

Many people know of MTV IR because our expertise in interventional oncology has led to us being considered some of the best liver cancer doctors in Dallas, and our Walnut Hill Medical Center facility...