Eating well: Delicious cancer prevention through nutrition

April 5, 2013

Cancer rates in developing countries are lower than those of westernized economies. Michael Wargovich, Ph.D., of the Cancer Therapy & Research Center believes it’s not because of what we are eating, but what we’ve lost: anti-inflammatory and protective ingredients in traditional foods and medicines like turmeric, chile and neem that help prevent cancer in the first place.



Latinas face life-endangering delay between abnormal mammogram, diagnosis

March 8, 2013

Latinas who have an abnormal mammogram result take 33 days longer to reach definitive diagnosis of breast cancer than non-Hispanic white women, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.



CPRIT funds study of drug resistance in glioblastomas

December 7, 2012

Studies of how to overcome drug resistance in deadly central nervous system tumors called glioblastomas will propel forward thanks to $755,718 from the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas.