Health professionals urged to endorse HPV vaccination

February 21, 2019

“I only wonder how my life would have been different if I’d had the HPV vaccination,” said Liz Kapeel, 27, a graduate of Texas State University who now works in Austin. The young woman was diagnosed with cervical cancer at age 25 and has received extensive treatment. She described her experiences at the “2019 HPV […]

Gail Tomlinson, Letitia Thompson and Michaell Huber


UT Health San Antonio, SwRI researchers win cancer detection challenge

February 13, 2019

UT Health San Antonio pathologists and Southwest Research Institute engineers placed first in an international challenge to develop an automated method to detect breast cancer tumor cells. They trained a computer algorithm previously used for automotive, robotics and defense applications to identify cancer cells for the BreastPathQ: Cancer Cellularity Challenge. The American Association of Physicists […]

Bradley Brimhall and Edward Medina




San Antonio Business Journal: UT Health SA completes major cancer center renovation

January 10, 2019

UT Health San Antonio has completed a major renovation of its cancer research and treatment facilities and appears poised to take advantage of an affiliation with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, which was announced just over two years ago. Note: A subscription may be needed to view this story. Read […]