UTMB Health Cancer Care - We treat it allAt UTMB Health, our approach to cancer care offers the benefit of a multidisciplinary team of experts, gathered at the same table and focused on you. Our care providers are UTMB clinicians who are experts in their fields, and compassionate, attentive and focused on your needs and well being. Our program works at cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment. Our medical and surgical oncologists, radiologists, radiation oncologists, reconstructive surgeons and excellent support teams are ready to address any of your cancer care needs at several convenient locations.
Skin cancer: 1 in 5 Americans will get it; Here's how you can find out if you are at risk June 23, 2022 • 8:47 a.m. by Community Impact's Storytelling team One in five Americans will develop skin cancer before the age of 70, making it more common than all other cancers combined. That’s why regular visits with a dermatologist are vital.
New research suggests ways to prevent cancer metastasis June 27, 2022 • 7:46 a.m. “Our concept of metastasis has changed over the years,” wrote Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel in their Medical Discovery News column. “Not long ago, doctors and scientists thought metastasis was a natural stage of the cancer that happened as tumors grew. Treatment relied on removing the primary tumor by surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy.”