Read more about what’s happening at Texas Oncology and the newest advancements in cancer care. Here are the latest Texas Oncology news and stories highlighting local practices and patients. Select a search option below by cancer center, physician, media type and year and click the search button to find your results. Items in yellow are articles and items in blue are videos.
We're nearing the end of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and one Longview woman is sharing her special story of survival, while advancing research along the way.
October is a time to celebrate breakthroughs in breast cancer treatment that helped create more than 3 million survivors in the United States.
Dr. Karen Cohen of Texas Oncology–Round Rock explains the essential and critical role radiation therapy plays in the management of breast cancer.
Doctor Courtney Yau of Texas Oncology−Round Rock Seton Williamson penned a column about advancements in metastatic breast cancer research through clinical trial programs available at Texas Oncology.
Texas Oncology announced plans to build a new cancer center in San Antonio to replace the existing center on Medical Drive. The new facility will have seven procedure rooms, eight lab rooms, 52 chemotherapy chairs, and more than 30 exam rooms to treat approximately 300 patients per day.
After being diagnosed with an aggressive blood cancer, Ryan Smith needed an allogeneic stem cell transplant, a procedure that removes all stem cells from the bone marrow and replaces them with healthy donor stem cells. Dr. Ryan Tierney of Texas Oncology−South Austin and Dr. Ramakrishnan the Texas Transplant Institute at St. David’s South worked together to preform the procedure which, up until that point, had never been done in Austin before.
Lynn Chaloupek is a Texas Oncology—Fort Worth 12th Avenue patient whose history with cancer dates back to 2001 when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma, followed by colon cancer in 2003, then breast cancer in 2009, which recently metastasized to her liver and arm. She has been receiving care at Texas Oncology since 2012.
Sometimes a great friend can be a soul mate, too. That's the way Valerie Wright and Teresa Jones talk about the almost instantaneous bond they formed while undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer.
Dr. Deepa Sashital of Texas Oncology−Baytown penned a column about advancements in metastatic breast cancer research through clinical trial programs available at Texas Oncology.