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Mays Cancer Center awarded American Cancer Society grant to boost individualized, timely, equitable care

<p>Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the American Cancer Society to enhance individualized, timely and equitable access to care for cancer patients and their families. The effort will feature use of an innovative mobile app to provide nutritional support and real-time symptom management to patients undergoing anti-cancer treatment, particularly the underserved and those living long distances from the clinic.</p>

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mHealthIntelligence: Cancer Center to Use mHealth App to Support Timely Access to Care

<p>Daruka Mahadevan, MD, PhD, Hematology and Medical Oncology/Mays Cancer Center, is featured in this article. &nbsp; Read More</p>

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Fox 29: November shines light on Lung Cancer

<p>Robert Maximos, MD, Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, was interviewed for this live segment. &nbsp; Watch Interview</p>

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Mays Cancer Center awarded American Cancer Society grant to boost individualized, timely, equitable care

<p>Mobile app will provide dietary advice and real-time symptom management Contact: Steven Lee, 210-450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO – Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the American Cancer Society to enhance individualized, timely and equitable access to care for cancer patients and their families. The local effort [&hellip;]</p>

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Texas Public Radio: Breast cancer still one of the most common types of cancer in women

<p>Deborah Mueller, MD, Surgery, and Minnie Chen Morales, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC,  School of Nursing alumna, are featured in this segment. &nbsp; Read More</p>

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San Antonio Woman: Knowledge Empowers Women to Survive Breast Cancer

<p>Virginia Kaklamani, MD, Mays Cancer Center/Medicine-Hematology-Oncology, is quoted in this story. &nbsp; Read More</p>

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Mays Cancer Center Partners with Nation’s Top Cancer Organizations to Endorse Initiative to Increase Lung Cancer Screening in the United States

<p>Joint call to action urges individuals, providers and insurers to increase access to and utilization of low-dose CT screening for those at high risk for lung cancer Contact: Eileen Teves, 210-450-7239, tevese@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (Nov. 1, 2022) – Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States, accounting for almost 25% of [&hellip;]</p>

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News 4: Knowing your family history helps fight breast cancer

<p>Lauren Mills, CGC, Mays Cancer Center, was featured in this live interview segment. &nbsp; Watch Interview</p>

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Experts support continued colonoscopy use to prevent and detect colorectal cancer

<p>A recently published European study that minimizes the benefits of colonoscopy to prevent colorectal cancer diagnoses and deaths has several limitations and must not deter anyone 45 and older from being screened, experts from the Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio said.</p>

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‘We have an obligation to help others’

<p>For teenager Arhan Rao, repurposing an antidepressant drug to treat cancer is the opening act in a career of serving patients by finding new ways to stop tumors. Contact: Will Sansom, 210-567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (Oct. 28, 2022) — As Arhan Rao, 17, watched his grandfather sicken with cancer and die three years ago, a goal [&hellip;]</p>

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