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October 6, 2023
The UT Health San Antonio Mays Cancer Center, along with Josephine Taverna, MD, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, and Tim Hui-Ming Huang, PhD, chair, Department of Molecular Medicine, were mentioned in this article. Read More
October 6, 2023
The UT Health San Antonio Mays Cancer Center, along with Josephine Taverna, MD, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, and Tim Hui-Ming Huang, PhD, chair, Department of Molecular Medicine, were mentioned in this article. Read More
October 6, 2023
Three decades after discoveries linking mutations in the BRCA1 gene to breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility, research led by Mays Cancer Center at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) has pinpointed the molecular mechanism by which a large portion of these mutations cause cancers in women. The […]
October 4, 2023
Researchers at Mays Cancer Center at The University of Texas Health Science at San Antonio have identified protein markers that could signal for early development of metastatic lung cancer, providing possibilities for new treatment. The findings already have led to a five-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of […]
September 29, 2023
Elizabeth Orcutt first learned about Li-Fraumeni syndrome — a hereditary cancer predisposition syndrome that increases the risk of certain types of cancers — in October of 2019 after her then 6-year-old daughter Lydia Orcutt woke up feeling unwell. “She was extra, extra cuddly and complained of a stomach ache,” Orcutt recalled. “Her symptoms rapidly escalated […]
September 28, 2023
Registration is open for the 46th annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, Dec. 5–9, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. Experts will lead symposium discussions on clinical, translational and basic research. Attendees will receive information on experimental biology, etiology, prevention, diagnosis and therapy of breast cancer and premalignant breast disease. Click here to register.