AI can jump-start radiation therapy for cancer patients
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/ai-radiation-therapy.html
Artificial intelligence can help cancer patients start their radiation therapy sooner – and thereby decrease the odds of the cancer spreading – by instantly translating complex clinical data into an optimal plan of attack.
Researchers unlock mystery of aggressive kidney cancer: August 2017 News Release - UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2017/mysteries-of-kidney-cancer.html
A long-standing question across oncology is why the same cancer may be very aggressive in some patients but not in others.
CPRIT awards $34M to UTSW for cancer research, recruitment: September 2017 News Releases - UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2017/cancer-research-award.html
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has awarded UT Southwestern researchers more than $34 million for cancer research and faculty recruitment, including support for programs in pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, and melanoma.
Illuminating cancer: New pH threshold sensor improves cancer surgery: 2017 Annual Review: Newsroom – UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2018/illuminating-cancer.html
The high acidity of cancer cells yielded the clue that led to the development of a tool that significantly improves surgeons’ abilities to remove cancerous tissues
Simmons Cancer Center joins elite network - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/simmons-cancer-center-joins-elite-network-of-institutions.html
The March 21 decision by NCCN to include the Simmons Cancer Center among its members recognizes Simmons Cancer Center’s elite status and will deepen its collaboration with national peers at the highest levels.
CPRIT awards UT Southwestern investigators $27 million for cancer prevention and research: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2018/cprit.html
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has awarded UT Southwestern researchers more than $27 million, including nearly $3 million for two key cancer screening programs in underserved areas.
New role for innate immune sensor: suppressing liver cancer: Newsroom, UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2019/suppressing-liver-cancer.html
UT Southwestern researchers have found that a protein in the body’s innate immune system that responds to gut microbes can suppress the most common type of liver cancer.
UT Southwestern scientists identify new mechanisms underlying pediatric kidney cancer: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2018/pediatric-kidney-cancer.html
Researchers at UT Southwestern have uncovered the means by which pediatric kidney cancer continues to grow, providing potential targets for more effective treatments in the future.
Targeted radiation controls metastatic kidney cancer: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2019/targeted-radiation-kidney-cancer.html
Investigators report an innovative strategy for treating advanced kidney cancer.
Scientists discover a new role for RNA in safeguarding chromosome number in human cells, with implications for cancer biology: December 2015 News Releases - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2015/norad-mendell.html
Molecular biologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a gene called NORAD that helps maintain the proper number of chromosomes in cells, and that when inactivated, causes the number of chromosomes in a cell to become unstable.