Research
A year of transformative progress
May 13, 2023
UT Health San Antonio’s Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine Dean Robert Hromas, MD, identifies four areas of focus of the Mays Cancer Center in its quest to end cancer for communities in South Texas and beyond.
The biology of cancer
May 13, 2023
Mays Cancer Center researchers are making significant strides in understanding risk factors and conditions that cause cancers to develop and progress and assessing impacts on the health and recovery of patients with cancer.
Promising compound kills range of hard-to-treat cancers
May 13, 2023
Ratna Vadlamudi, PhD, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Mays Cancer Center, is researching compounds that can target cancer cells to stop their growth.
New discoveries in pediatric cancer research
May 13, 2023
The findings from recent research studies in pediatric cancer offer hope for drug development.
Disparities discussed at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
May 13, 2023
Researchers from the Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio presented results of multiple lines of study during the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, operated in conjunction with the American Association of Cancer Research.
How COVID-19 vaccines affect patients with cancer
May 13, 2023
Mays Cancer Center researchers are studying how the immune system responds to the novel coronavirus vaccine in patients with cancer, and why many Black patients with cancer experienced significantly worse outcomes after COVID-19 diagnosis than non-Hispanic white cancer patients.