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April 13, 2026
For more than 20 years, Lixin Song, PhD, RN, FAAN, vice dean for research and scholarship and professor of nursing at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) School of Nursing, has studied how cancer patients and their families navigate the challenging experience of making decisions about treatment while facing uncertainty, […]
March 31, 2026
Contact: Eileen Teves, 210-450-7239, tevese@uthscsa.edu Content provided by Susan Anasagasti SAN ANTONIO, March 31, 2026 — The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium® drew more than 11,000 attendees to downtown San Antonio and generated nearly $40 million in economic impact, according to a new report from Visit San Antonio. Held each December at the Henry B. […]
March 24, 2026
UT Health San Antonio Multispecialty and Research Hospital has enrolled and treated its first clinical trial participant in a novel cancer study, marking a pivotal moment for science and patient-centered cancer care in San Antonio and South Texas.
March 12, 2026
National experts in cancer drug development gathered at a symposium hosted by the UT Health San Antonio Mays Cancer Center’s Experimental and Drug Therapeutics Program to discuss new strategies and opportunities in cancer research and tackle pressing challenges in patient care.
March 2, 2026
A large, retrospective study conducted by scientists at The University of Texas at San Antonio suggests that people taking glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists — medications that are widely prescribed for metabolic disease — have a significantly lower risk of developing colorectal cancer compared with those taking aspirin.
February 3, 2026
This story was first published in the February 2026 issue of the Bexar County Medical Society’s San Antonio Medicine magazine. New face of head and neck cancer A healthy 40-year-old man visits his primary care physician for a mass on his neck. He doesn’t smoke, has no risk factors for head and neck cancer, and […]