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Give Cancer the Boot: Survivorship 5K/1 Mile Walk registration open

  Register today and join cancer survivors, families and other supporters for the 7th annual Give Cancer the Boot: Survivorship 5K/1 Mile Walk on April 6 at the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center. Take advantage of early bird registration for $30 until March 4. Registration fees increase […]

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Radiation oncology associate professor receives $500,000 UT System Faculty STARs award

Justin Leung, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology in the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (also called UT Health San Antonio), has received a Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention (STARs) $500,000 award from The University of Texas Board […]

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Nominate UT Health San Antonio for SAEN’s Readers’ Choice Awards

Help UT Health San Antonio keep the top spot as the best in San Antonio for the 2024 YourSA San Antonio Express-News Readers’ Choice Award.

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Mays Cancer Center hosts annual breast cancer symposium, addresses care and advancements in treatment

Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio, in partnership with the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), is hosting the 46th annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center on Dec. 5-9. This scientific and education symposium, initiated and owned by Mays Cancer Center, is the world’s largest […]

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Concentrated approach in chemotherapy comes to Mays Cancer Center, gives hope to patients with inoperable liver tumors

  Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center, proudly announces the launch of a specialized chemotherapy delivery system called hepatic artery infusion, also known as HAI pump therapy, for colorectal cancer patients whose tumors are inoperable and have spread to the liver. Approved by the US Food and Drug […]

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UT Health San Antonio skybridge nears completion, receives generous gift to name state-of-the-art walkway

  The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) held a special dedication ceremony near the construction site of the UT Health Multispecialty and Research Hospital. The ceremony marked the official announcement of the naming of the soon-to-be completed skybridge. Thanks to the generosity of San Antonio business owners and philanthropists […]

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Mays Cancer Center partners with American Cancer Society to increase lung cancer screenings in South Texas

  Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center, is partnering with the American Cancer Society to spread awareness and encourage more at-risk South Texans to screen for lung cancer. Early diagnosis in Texas ranks as one of the lowest in the country. Among all 50 states, including Washington, DC, […]

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CPRIT grant to support HPV vaccination of childhood cancer survivors

  A grant of nearly $1 million from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) will expand a program of vaccination for human papillomavirus (HPV) among survivors of childhood cancer. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection, but […]

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KSAT 12: Local researchers exploring alternatives to surgical cancer treatment

Weixing Zhao, PhD, Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute and the UT Health San Antonio Mays Cancer Center, and Sandeep Burma, PhD, FNASc, departments of Biochemistry and Structural Biology and Neurosurgery, the UT Health San Antonio Mays Cancer Center, were interviewed for this news segment.   Watch Now  

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ASBMB Today: Beauty at a geographic intersection

Sandeep Burma, PhD, FNASc, professor, vice chair (research), Biochemistry ands Structural Biology and Neurosurgery, UT Health San Antonio and the Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio, authored this article.   Read More

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