How exercise helps every cancer patient

February 6, 2012

Climbing stairs again. Lost weight. Better sleep. More energy. Cancer survivors who have joined supervised exercise programs report all these benefits. They often also report that at first, they don’t know how to begin.


Study shows a urine test can effectively predict high-risk prostate cancer

February 2, 2012

Initial results of a multicenter study involving The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio indicate that two urine-based biomarkers are associated with prostate cancers that are likely to be aggressive and potentially life-threatening among men who take an “active surveillance” approach to manage their disease.



Scientists Uncover Novel Mechanism of Glioblastoma Development

January 19, 2012

Most research on glioblastoma development, a complicated tumor of the brain with a poor prognosis, has focused on the gene transcription level, but scientists suggest that post-transcriptional regulation could be equally or even more important.



When are genes a blueprint for cancer?

January 12, 2012

A free public lecture on the latest on our understanding of the role genes play in cancer, and the therapies being developed to fight it at the genetic level, at the Cancer Therapy & Research Center at The University of Texas Health Science Center