Female cancer patients at the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center, have a new option to preserve their fertility before undergoing treatment. “It is extremely common that cancer patients will experience the loss of fertility and early menopause after gonadotoxic therapies required for many cancer patients,” said […]

  Approximately 30% of individuals with myeloid malignancy diseases have a mutation in a certain gene called tet methylcytosine dioxygenase 2 (TET2). This gene is responsible for providing instructions on creating certain proteins and is known to have a tumor-suppressive function. A study published October 2 in Nature is the first to explain the pathway […]

  Simon Gayther, PhD, professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology in the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine and founding director in the school’s Center for Inherited Oncogenesis at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), received a $500,000 UT System […]