Experts issue call to rethink screening for breast cancer and prostate cancer

October 20, 2009

Twenty years of screening for breast and prostate cancer – the most diagnosed cancers for women and men respectively – have not brought the anticipated decline in deaths from these diseases, argue experts from the University of California, San Francisco and The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in an opinion piece published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.




Cancer patients, physicians become fashion models for a cause

September 25, 2009

Saks Fifth Avenue San Antonio is hosting an invitation-only fashion show to promote three October shopping opportunities that benefit the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.



CTRC experts available to comment on brain cancer

August 26, 2009

The Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio — one of the three National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Centers in Texas — is making available neuro-oncology experts to comment on the type of cancer Sen. Kennedy had, its typical prognosis and advances in its treatment.