KSAT 12: How is COVID-19 taking a toll on pediatric cancer patients?

March 8, 2021

Dr. Chatchawin Assanasen, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, told KSAT 12 audiences that, in this fearful COVID-19 world, a lifesaving cancer screening may be long overdue and as a result, new cancers are getting diagnosed at later stages. Read and watch the story.




$6 million CPRIT award to bring veteran cancer researcher

March 2, 2021

UT Health San Antonio and its Mays Cancer Center will receive a $6 million award from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to recruit Alexander Mazin, PhD, a senior, highly accomplished biochemist and cancer biologist currently at Drexel University College of Medicine.

Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson