Philosophy of Care

A diagnosis of breast cancer is often unexpected and life‑changing. Dr. Ho specializes in guiding individuals through the earliest and most vulnerable stages of their treatment journey. She considers it a profound privilege to support patients with clarity, steadiness, and hope.

Her approach begins with understanding each patient’s values and goals. She then develops a personalized, evidence‑based treatment plan in close collaboration with medical and surgical oncology colleagues. While breast cancer care is a team effort, Dr. Ho recognizes that each patient’s experience is deeply personal. She welcomes individualized and innovative strategies when they may offer meaningful benefit and ensures that patients are informed about the latest research advances and appropriate clinical trial opportunities.

When decisions feel complex or uncertain, Dr. Ho remains a consistent advocate—helping patients navigate their options in ways that feel thoughtful, clear, and aligned with their comfort and priorities.

Professional Biography

Dr. Alice Ho, MD, MBA, serves as a Consulting Physician with Arizona Radiation Therapy Specialists, providing expert care and second opinions for patients with breast and gynecologic cancers requiring radiation therapy. She is a Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Houston Methodist Academic Institute and Weill Cornell University School of Medicine. She also serves as Co‑Director of the Breast Cancer Program and co‑leads the Personalized Triple Negative Breast Cancer Vaccine Executive Committee at Houston Methodist Hospital.

A funded physician‑scientist, Dr. Ho has extensive experience designing and leading clinical trials that integrate radiotherapy with biologically targeted treatments, including immunotherapies and DNA repair–directed agents for patients with high‑risk breast cancer. She is a grantee of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and has authored more than 300 peer‑reviewed publications, reviews, editorials, book chapters, and abstracts focused on breast cancer.

Her perspectives on breast radiation oncology have been featured in The New England Journal of Medicine, and her original research has appeared in leading journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, Lancet Oncology, Clinical Cancer Research, Cancer Cell, and Nature.

Dr. Ho is an active clinical trialist who collaborates closely with national cooperative groups and leads national studies in breast radiation oncology. Prior to relocating to Arizona in 2025, she held faculty positions at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Duke University.

View Dr. Ho’s publications:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=ho+alice+breast