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Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center

Houston, Texas

BCM has 25 departments and more than 90 research and patient-care centers.
Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center
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An NCI- Designated Cancer Center

The Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine is a consortium made up of several institutions across the Texas Medical Center. The Duncan Cancer Center at BCM brings together all of the cancer-related activities from across these institutions under one umbrella, fast-tracking our efforts to prevent and ultimately cure cancer in all its forms.

Special Features

Prostate cancer spurs new nerves

Prostate cancer nerve growth study video still imageProstate cancer – and perhaps other cancers – promotes the growth of new nerves and the branching axons that carry their messages, a finding associated with more aggressive tumors, said researchers from the Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine in the first report of the phenomenon that appears today in the journal Clinical Cancer Research. Read full story on prostate cancer study findings. Watch video

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