Cancer Research

A UT Health San Antonio researcher confirms that how magnesium gets into immune system cells can determine whether they fight oral cancer or support tumor growth. The discovery offers hope for new ways to prevent and treat the disease.

Oral squamous cell carcinoma kills about half of the people who get it, and there have been no new treatments developed for half a century. A UT Health San Antonio dentist has developed a novel drug that may offer these patients a better chance at survival.

The idea that there may be medicines already out there, safe and approved by the FDA and just waiting to be rediscovered is tantalizing for scientists, doctors, and patients.

The cryo-EM enables researchers to create 3-D models of individual proteins from thousands of images. This betters their understanding of how to target them for drug treatments.

Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson will construct and run the The Proton Therapy and Research Center in partnership with a Georgia company called Proton International.

UT Health San Antonio has broken ground in a "virtual" ceremony on a new $430 million hospital that will specialize in researching and treating diseases that disproportionately impact South Texans.

Cancer is the leading cause of death among Latinos and this demographic also faces a greater risk for Alzheimer’s disease, but Latinos are largely underrepresented in clinical research trials. A program at UT Health San Antonio is working to close that gap.

Hispanics are the largest and youngest minority group in the United States, and growing rapidly, but 1 in 3 will be diagnosed with cancer in their…

Dozens of people eagerly gathered inside the halls of a local hotel in McAllen, Texas this week for a fashion show — but the models weren’t professionals…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug to treat a rare blood disorder. It’s the first new treatment for this disease in nearly a…