Galveston County Daily News, Dec. 2, 2007 UTMB is considering a policy that would deny cancer care to indigent, undocumented immigrants - an unusual and controversial move for a state-funded institution. Medical branch officials are forming the policy as they strain to stretch dwindling state dollars for uninsured patients and while illegal immigration ranks among the most divisive issues in the nation. The article quotes Karen Sexton, vice president and CEO of UTMB hospitals and clinics, and Dr. Howard Brody, director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities.