Support for Patient Care

Cancer

collaborative care

UCSF boasts the only facility between Los Angeles and Seattle to earn the National Cancer Institute’s Comprehensive Cancer Center designation. This title recognizes the breadth, depth and quality of all the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center's activities, which—in addition to outstanding patient care—include basic and clinical research, prevention and control programs, epidemiology studies, community outreach and education efforts.

Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center patients have access to the most current and effective treatments from expert and compassionate physicians. They may also visit the Ida and Joseph Friend Cancer Resource Center, which provides disease-specific information and support groups, treatment options and community resources—all at no cost. Counselors at the UCSF Cancer Risk Program work with patients' families, providing education sessions, offering testing for heritable genetic mutations and helping individuals develop personalized risk-management programs.

Private support enables the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center to attract and retain the very best caregivers, ensuring that patients will be treated compassionately by physicians with unsurpassed experience in all forms of cancer. Gifts to this priority may also help fund individual cancer programs as well as trials of new treatments, giving UCSF patients access to the most innovative therapies.

To support the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, contact please contact Ann Carollo at 415/502-2404 or acarollo@support.ucsf.edu.