Brian Fricke, MD, director of cancer rehabilitation, at Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center, shares what side effects patients may face after cancer treatment and how receiving therapy services can help with pain and symptom management, improve physical function and reduce overall caregiver burden. Watch here    

Marcela Mazo Canola, MD, breast medical oncologist at Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses how breast cancer has impacted the Hispanic/Latino population and the importance of breast cancer screenings. She also shares the signs of symptoms, along with the risk factors and what women can do to […]

Natalie Poullard, MA, MS, CGC, a certified genetic counselor at Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center, provides a brief understanding of genetic testing benefits, the types of tests available and what you can expect during an appointment.  Watch here

The Mays Cancer Center/UT Health San Antonio Joint Cancer Prevention and Screening Committee includes clinicians and scientists from across UT Health.

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 […]

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.

Mays Cancer Center/UT Health San Antonio panel responds to recent study Contact: Will Sansom, 210-567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (Oct. 27, 2022) — 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 […]

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.

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 […]

Reuben S. Harris, PhD, professor and chair in the Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), has received a UT System Faculty Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention (STARs) award in the amount of $1.5 million to establish his laboratory, assist […]