{"id":1704,"date":"2020-08-18T19:15:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T19:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2020-08-18T19:51:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T19:51:41","slug":"mays-cancer-center-nci-cancer-center-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/2020\/08\/18\/mays-cancer-center-nci-cancer-center-renewal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mays Cancer Center Receives Five-Year NCI-Designated Cancer Center Renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud on the news that the <a href=\"https:\/\/cancer.uthscsa.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mays Cancer Center<\/a>, one of four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/research\/infrastructure\/cancer-centers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Cancer Institute designated Cancer Centers<\/a> in South Texas, has been granted five more years as an NCI Cancer Center following a site visit this past February 2020.\u00a0 This is a great achievement thanks to the leadership of Mays Cancer Center Director Ruben Mesa, MD, FACP.\u00a0 The Mays Cancer Center is home to the UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Center Center.<\/p>\n<p>Within the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at UT Health San Antonio, we treat patients with thoracic cancers, including lung cancer, esophageal cancer, mediastinal and chest wall tumors.\u00a0 Our thoracic surgeons are <a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/team-member\/daniel-t-dearmond-md\/\">Dr. Daniel DeArmond<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/team-member\/scott-b-johnson-md\/\">Dr. Scott Johnson<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/team-member\/duy-nguyen-md\/\">Dr. Duy Nguyen<\/a>.\u00a0 Together, we offer a wide variety of treatment options tailored to the patient, including minimally invasive \/ robotic thoracic surgery, as well as complex esophageal \/ foregut surgery.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Thoracic Surgery at UT Health San Antonio, click <a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/patient-care\/thoracic-surgery\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please read the full new article <a href=\"https:\/\/news.uthscsa.edu\/mays-cancer-center-receives-five-year-nci-designated-cancer-center-renewal\/?utm_source=Newsweaver&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=Mays+Cancer+Center+renewed+as+a+National+Cancer+Institute-Designated+Cancer+Center&amp;utm_campaign=thisweek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud on the news that the Mays Cancer Center, one of four National Cancer Institute designated Cancer Centers in South Texas, has been granted five more years as an NCI Cancer Center following a site visit this past February 2020.\u00a0 This is a great achievement thanks to the leadership of Mays Cancer Center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":1513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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