National Cancer Institute renews Simmons Cancer Center’s prestigious comprehensive designation: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/nci-renews-scc.html

The National Cancer Institute has renewed the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center’s comprehensive designation, reaffirming its place among the country’s elite cancer institutes.

AI may help brain cancer patients avoid biopsy

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/ai-brain-cancer.html

Brain cancer patients in the coming years may not need to go under the knife to help doctors determine the best treatment for their tumors.

20-year cancer survivor is beating a second diagnosis: pancreatic cancer: November 2016 News Releases - UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2016/pancreatic-cancer-survivor.html

He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 1996 and managed his slow-growing disease until 2013, when he started having pains in the side of his abdomen.

UT Southwestern cancer experts catalog, map kidney cancer tumors and progression: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2019/catalog-map-kidney-cancer-tumors.html

Researchers at the Kidney Cancer Program at UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed what could be the most complete catalog of clear cell renal cell carcinoma, the most common type of kidney cancer.

Researchers demonstrate RAS dimers are essential for cancer: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2018/ras-dimers.html

Researchers at UT Southwestern’s Simmons Cancer Center have shown that RAS molecules act in pairs, known as dimers, to cause cancer, findings that could help guide them to a treatment.

NIH National Cancer Institute awards top-tier comprehensive status to Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center: July 2015 News Releases - UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2015/nci.html

The National Cancer Institute awarded UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center its highest designation.

Visits with primary care doctor result in more colon cancer screening and better follow-up of abnormal results, UT Southwestern research shows: June 2016 News Release - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2016/colon-cancer-halm.html

People who visit their primary care physicians are more likely to get potentially life-saving colon cancer screenings and follow up on abnormal stool blood test results, a UTSW study shows.

Cell competition may explain cancer relapses, research suggests: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/november-cell-competition.html

A normal process called cell competition, in which healthy tissues eliminate unhealthy cells, could be responsible for cancer relapses in patients months or years after they were declared cancer-free, a new study by UT Southwestern researchers suggests.

Letters, mail kits can triple colon cancer screening rates: September 2017 News Releases - UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2017/colon-cancer-screenings.html

Sending a letter and, in some cases, a simple mail-in kit tripled colon cancer screening completion among low-income adults, researchers at UT Southwestern’s Simmons Cancer Center report this week in JAMA.

Surgeon uses magnetic tools to reduce incisions in cancer surgery: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2018/magnetic-surgery.html

Cadeddu and his colleagues spent years developing the concept of magnetic-assisted surgery, reporting on their work in The Annals of Surgery.