Dr. Ruben Mesa elected to board of the Association of American Cancer Institutes

July 26, 2021

Contact: Steven Lee, 210-450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu Ruben Mesa, MD, FACP, executive director of the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center, has been elected to the board of the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI). He joins three other new board members to support the organization’s mission of accelerating progress […]




Nearly all patients with cancer respond well to COVID-19 vaccines

July 1, 2021

In a U.S. and Swiss study, nearly all patients with cancer developed good immune response to the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines three to four weeks after receiving their second dose, but the fact that a small group of the patients exhibited no response raised questions about how their protection against the virus will be addressed moving forward.

Cancer Patient with Cap Photo