Cancer survivors can live better – lecture next week
April 30, 2013
Treatments for many cancers have improved dramatically, and there are more than 13 million cancer survivors in the United States today, with 18 million predicted by 2020.
Eating well: Delicious cancer prevention through nutrition
April 5, 2013
Cancer rates in developing countries are lower than those of westernized economies. Michael Wargovich, Ph.D., of the Cancer Therapy & Research Center believes it’s not because of what we are eating, but what we’ve lost: anti-inflammatory and protective ingredients in traditional foods and medicines like turmeric, chile and neem that help prevent cancer in the first place.
Prostate cancer treatment study changing the way doctors practice
April 4, 2013
A study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine recommends a dramatic shift in the way doctors treat metastatic prostate cancer.
Latinas face life-endangering delay between abnormal mammogram, diagnosis
March 8, 2013
Latinas who have an abnormal mammogram result take 33 days longer to reach definitive diagnosis of breast cancer than non-Hispanic white women, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Cell phones and secondhand smoke — what in our environment causes cancer?
February 4, 2013
n a world full of chemicals and radiation, it’s easy to perceive — aided and abetted by the Internet — carcinogens everywhere; in the air we breathe, in the phones we use, in the energy drinks we quaff.
CPRIT funds study of drug resistance in glioblastomas
December 7, 2012
Studies of how to overcome drug resistance in deadly central nervous system tumors called glioblastomas will propel forward thanks to $755,718 from the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas.