Newsroom
October 13, 2020
Virginia Kaklamani, MD, professor of hematology/oncology, shares the breast cancer warning signs to look out for and how patients can be screened safely during COVID-19. Read and watch the story.
October 9, 2020
Mingjiang Xu, MD, PhD, professor of molecular medicine, was awarded a $1 million UT System Faculty STARs award to enhance cancer epigenetics research and support the discovery of targeted therapeutics for blood cancers.
October 7, 2020
Dr. Jay Ferrell, Otolaryngology, educated viewers about the warning signs of head and neck cancers, who is at risk, and the treatments available after news of the passing of guitar rock icon, Eddie Van Halen, who died of throat cancer at the age of 65. Watch the story.
October 5, 2020
The second item in this briefs section is about Dr. Ruben Mesa, MD, FACP, being named executive director of the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson. Read the story.
October 1, 2020
Results published in the journal PLOS ONE show that 20% of children treated with drugs called anthracyclines go on to suffer heart failure later in life. The research is conducted in the laboratory of Gregory Aune, MD, PhD, of the Department of Pediatrics and the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute at UT Health San Antonio. Read […]
September 25, 2020
Cancer chemotherapy changes the function of cells that repair heart injury, researchers at UT Health San Antonio discovered. Twenty percent of children treated with drugs called anthracyclines go on to suffer heart failure later in life.
