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As the only National Cancer Institute–designated cancer center in the North Texas region, UT Southwestern’s Simmons Cancer Center is committed to sharing its expertise and improving the quality of lung cancer care for this area of the country.

The power of genetic testing to aid in cancer prevention is amplified with cascade testing.

This guide to cervical cancer will help women better understand this disease, know their risk, and learn the treatment options.

Pervasive and particularly deadly, lung cancer has remained intractable even as other cancers have yielded more readily to treatment advances. But science is steadily shedding light on therapeutic approaches that may begin to turn the odds of beating the disease in lung cancer patients’ favor.

Genetic testing in 2014 at the Simmons Cancer Center revealed that a 50-year-old had a mutation in the BRCA1 gene, meaning she had a higher risk for breast and ovarian cancer.

Assaults on KRAS. Researchers are finding new ways to neutralize the impact of the KRAS gene mutation, a notorious molecular villain in lung as well as other cancers.

Select cancer clinical trials that are open and seeking participants.

Anyone over age 50 or who has had a close relative diagnosed with colon cancer should get a colonoscopy. It may not be as bad as you think, and the potential benefits are off the charts.

Are we winning the war against cancer? A UT Southwestern physician explains advancements in cancer treatments and other positive signs of success in the fight against cancer.

Understanding the complexity of genetic and genomic testing can be daunting for patients.