The Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) at the University of Texas Health Science Center
at San Antonio, located in San Antonio, Texas, is a patient care, research, prevention and
education center of Health Science Center School of Medicine.
CTRC merged with and became a center of The University of Texas Health Science Center
at San Antonio in December 2007. Before the merger, the two institutions were partners in
the San Antonio Cancer Institute (SACI), which received status as a National Cancer Institute
(NCI)–designated Cancer Center in 1993. SACI has been discontinued, and the CTRC
is now the NCI–designated Cancer Center, one of the three such centers in Texas.
The CTRC Institute for Drug Development (IDD) is internationally recognized as home
of one of the largest integrated drug development programs in the world. Patients from
around the world participate in Phase I, II and III clinical studies. Twenty of the
cancer drugs most recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration underwent
preclinical, translational and clinical development and testing at the CTRC.
Established in 1974, the mission of the CTRC is to conquer cancer through research,
prevention and treatment. CTRC is committed to providing each patient with personalized,
comprehensive and compassionate care by a team of cancer specialists in disease-specific,
multidisciplinary clinics.
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