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PaintFest America brings creativity, healing to cancer patients

July 26, 2016 Allison Mickey, Art, Cancer, Community, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dr. Kent Osborne, Dr. Matthew Ellis, Events, Foundation for Hospital Art, Houston, Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, PaintFest America

For those dealing with a cancer diagnosis, painting can be a therapeutic way to cope with difficult circumstances, explore creativity and bond with friends and

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Theatre monologues, art car help promote cancer awareness and nutrition education

July 12, 2016 Cancer, Community, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dr. Maria Jibaja-Weiss, Education, Healthcare, Houston, Office of Outreach and Health Disparities, outreach, Toni the Healthy Eating Cart

Encouraging cancer awareness in a city as diverse as Houston requires a range of educational tools and cultural understanding. From its Theatre Outreach Program to

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From Brazil to Baylor: Avon Global Breast Cancer Clinical Scholars

July 8, 2016 Allison Mickey, Avon Global Clinical Scholars Program, Brazil, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Community, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dr. Matthew Ellis, Education, Healthcare, Houston, Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center

Beyond providing excellence in care to patients with breast cancer and developing new approaches to treating the disease, Baylor College of Medicine’s Lester and Sue

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Throwback Thursday: Breaking ground

July 7, 2016 Cancer, Cancer Moonshot Initiative, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, History, Houston, Nicole Blanton, pharmacology, protein research, Research, Throwback Thursday

Did you know that the nation’s first nuclear protein laboratory was organized at Baylor College of Medicine? In this 1972 photo from Inside Baylor Medicine

From The Labs

The mTOR pathway: a new avenue for breast cancer cells to promote tumor growth

July 6, 2016 anti-tumor response, Cancer, cancer immunology, G-CSF, Immunology, mTOR, myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs)

Cancer cells respond in various ways to the body’s attempts to eliminate them. One strategy is to recruit immune cells in the body, such as

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Image of the Month: C60 fullerene ‘bucky balls’ help deliver pharmacologic agents to cancer cells

July 1, 2016 bucky ball, Cancer, cancer treatment, drugs, Nanotechnology, nanothecnology

Drs. Steven Curley and Stuart Corr in the Electromagnetic Field and Nanomaterials Research Laboratory at Baylor are linking nanoparticles, such as the C60 fullerene bucky

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New class of small molecule, SI-2, can drug the ‘undruggable’ steroid receptor coactivator-3

June 16, 2016 Cancer, drugs, SI-2, SRC-3, steroid receptor, steroid receptor coactivator

By Ana María Rodríguez, Ph.D. Steroid receptor coactivator-3, which is well-known for its role in cancer formation and proliferation, is usually considered ‘undruggable’ because this nuclear

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Genomic study on renal cell carcinoma reveals potential opportunities for more effective treatments

April 18, 2016 Cancer, genome

By Ana María Rodríguez, Ph.D. It is well understood that renal cell carcinoma is not a single disease. Patients with this type of cancer have

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Discovery of CTLA-4 in dendritic cells opens new possibilities to fight cancer

April 15, 2016 Cancer, cancer immunity, CTLA-4, dendritic cells, Immunology, ipilimumab, tumor vaccine

By Ana María Rodríguez, Ph.D. In the battle against cancer, T cells are the ‘foot soldiers’ and dendritic cells are ‘the generals.’ Cancer cells are

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Oral, head and neck cancer and HPV: What you should know

April 13, 2016 Cancer, Dr. Andrew Sikora, head and neck cancer, Healthcare, Houston, HPV, hpv vaccine, Men's Health, otolaryngology, Vaccines, Women's Health

Once exclusively associated with risk factors like alcohol and tobacco use, research finds that as many as 70 percent of head and neck cancers occurring