UT Health San Antonio and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center join forces to benefit South Texas cancer patients.
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What goes through the mind of a cancer doctor who learns he has cancer?
The link has been proposed for a long time, but researchers lacked evidence of a connection—until now.
Experimental gene therapy “outsmarts” one of the deadliest and most aggressive brain cancers.
The idea: tiny radioactive fat particles, only 100 nanometers across, inserted by the thinnest of catheters directly into a tumor where they remain, radiating only a tiny distance, affecting only the tumor. The target: glioblastoma, the deadliest of brain tumors. On March 10, David Williams became the first human ever to have the new radiation […]
Since its founding more than 40 years ago, the Cancer Therapy & Research Center has grown in stature, scope, funding, patient care and research. But there’s been at least one constant: the support of Lowry and Peggy Mays. The couple has long been involved in the effort to make the CTRC the premier cancer treatment […]
Researchers at the Cancer Therapy & Research Center were awarded more than $5 million in grants from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to help in projects ranging from examining the on/off switch of a cancer-fighting molecule to preventing liver cancer in a majority Hispanic South Texas population. “I’m not surprised, but I’m […]