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    An 'Army Of People' Helps Houston Cancer Patients Get Treatment

    During Harvey, doctors, nurses, technicians and facilities staff tended to inpatients at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Now the hospital is working to get outpatients back for care as well.
    by Andrea Hsu Aug 31, 2017 2 minutes
    The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center had 528 patients in the hospital as Harvey hit. A team of about 1,000 people tended to them and their families until reinforcements arrived Monday.

    As rains pounded Houston on Sunday, Dr. Karen Lu took to Twitter and conveyed both alarm and reassurance: "Roads around @MDAndersonNews impassable. Our on-site ride out team is caring for patients and we are all safe."

    Lu is a professor of gynecologic oncology and interim chief medical officer at the , a top cancer hospital and research center. Earlier that morning, the hospital had

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