Vulcan Materials to raise funds for CTRC in annual Funshoot sporting clays event
September 2, 2011
The tradition began in 1994, after cancer had touched the lives of several Vulcan employees, who sought help through the CTRC.
Cancer-related urinary incontinence the subject of the next CTRC free public lecture
August 30, 2011
Urinary incontinence is a common problem that can be worsened by cancer and some of its related therapies.
Hispanics’ cancer risk the topic of CTRC’s next public lecture
August 2, 2011
Hispanics, who make up 60 percent of Bexar County’s population and almost 40 percent of Texas’, face special cancer risks.
CPRIT gives Health Science Center researcher cancer prevention grant to partner with YMCA
July 28, 2011
The Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) on Wednesday awarded $265,000 to a researcher from the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio who is working with the YMCA of Greater San Antonio to encourage healthy living and cancer prevention.
New study evaluates yoga’s benefits for breast cancer survivors
July 21, 2011
In response to staggering obesity and breast cancer mortality rates, a new local study is testing how different types of exercise—like yoga—best improve cancer survivors’ fitness, quality of life and molecular indicators of future risk.
CPRIT honors San Antonio cancer investigators
July 15, 2011
A ceremony marking Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas’ awards totaling almost $13 million in cancer research dollars to San Antonio health and academic institutions