Patients ultimately benefit from practical course on new cancer drugs
March 9, 2010
Physicians, nurses and pharmacists are faced with a dizzying array of new drugs to consider when treating their cancer patients.
Permanent executive director named for Cancer Therapy & Research Center
March 5, 2010
Five months after being named interim executive director of the Cancer Therapy & Research Center at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Ian Murchie Thompson Jr., M.D., has accepted an offer to make the position permanent.
Faculty available to discuss new prostate cancer guidelines
March 3, 2010
A San Antonio physician, Ian M. Thompson, Jr., M.D., interim executive director of the Cancer Therapy & Research Center at the UT Health Science Center, was one of a dozen scientists nationally to author the guideline.
Motivational speaker promises a “roller coaster ride” at Cancer Center Council luncheon March 23 to benefit CTRC
February 23, 2010
Suzie Humphreys freely admits she makes her living “talking off the top of my head.” Yet she is confident that when she speaks at the Cancer Center Council’s 17th Annual Spring Luncheon, the audience will be uplifted.
Scientists ID a protein that splices and dices genes
February 4, 2010
A novel finding, described Thursday (Feb. 4) on the Science Express Web site by teams from the National Cancer Institute, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and the University of Toronto, offers a clue as to how genes can have what you might call multiple personalities.
Micro-thermostat controls infection tied to common AIDS cancer
January 19, 2010
A tiny molecule called a microRNA acts as a thermostat regulating infection by the Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio reported this week in Nature Cell Biology.