Team IDs mechanism underlying rare children’s blood cancer

January 24, 2022

Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), reporting this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, identified a mechanism through which two antiviral genes, when mutated, promote a childhood cancer called pediatric myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Scientists at Oklahoma State University and Cornell University collaborated […]

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Team IDs mechanism underlying rare children’s blood cancer

January 19, 2022

Region of protein can be therapy target in pediatric myelodysplastic syndrome. Contact: Will Sansom, (210) 567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (Jan. 19, 2022) — Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), reporting this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, identified a mechanism […]

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MedPage Today: Study shows promise for oral SERD in breast cancer

January 5, 2022

Dr. Virginia Kaklamani, Medicine/Hematology-Oncology and Mays Cancer Center, is the moderator of the discussion presented in this article. The experts comment on two clinical trials of selective estrogen receptor degraders (SERDs) for treatment of metastatic breast cancer. Results of both trials were presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Read story