California’s Anti-Smoking Push Spurs Big Savings on Health Costs
For the past 30 years, the California Tobacco Control Program has helped Californians save $816 billion in health care costs.
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New App Calculates Women’s Risk for Advanced Breast Cancer
A new digital tool helps to calculate breast cancer risk for those who may develop advanced cancer that goes undiagnosed despite regular screenings.
Paid Sick Leave Means More People Get Screened for Cancer
Sick leave coverage expansion were associated with higher rates of mammography screening and colorectal screening, potentially leading to better health outcomes.
“Smarter” Breast Cancer Screening Measures Risk Down to Your DNA
The WISDOM 2.0 study aims to transform breast cancer screening by using a personalized approach and will expand to women as young as 30.
If Immunity Is Innate, What Impacts Our Ability to Fight Infections?
Balyn Zaro’s lab investigates the cause and consequence of genetic diversity in the immune system, in hopes that her discoveries can lead to better treatments for all patients.
Breast Cancer Risk Calculator Can Assess Risk of Advanced Cancer
A new digital tool helps calculate breast cancer risk for those who may develop advanced cancer that goes undiagnosed despite regular screenings.
Big Little Lives
Trillions of invisible organisms make up the human microbiome. Now, medical scientists want to put these bugs to work.
The Radical Compassion of Awake Brain Surgery
On the operating table and inside the lab of a rising star in cancer neurosurgery.
Aggressive Surgery Increases Survival with Low-Grade Brain Tumors
Resecting brain tumors called gliomas as much as possible soon after diagnosis offers a distinct survival advantage when looking at the disease trajectory 10 years later, find UCSF researchers.
UCSF Researchers Uncover New Pathway for Molecular Cancer Drug Therapies
Researchers have discovered a cellular uptake pathway for larger molecules that delivers cell-permeable drugs efficiently.
Rethinking How Cancer Cells Evade Targeted Therapy
Through decades of biobanking at UCSF, researchers were able to comprehensively map intra-cellular signaling in the cells of recurrent glioblastoma, identifying novel cell-extrinsic therapeutic targets.
Killing Pancreatic Cancer with T Cells that Supercharge Themselves
T-cells can be directed to produce cytokine, a powerful anti-cancer component, when they encounter cancer cells. This holds tremendous promise for cancer immunotherapy.
International Hematologic Conference Features UCSF Health Experts
UCSF experts in multiple myeloma and other hematologic malignancies will attend the American Society of Hematology’s (ASH) 64th Annual Meeting and Exposition.
How AI Found the Words to Kill Cancer Cells
A new sophisticated machine learning technique using a molecular library of commands guides engineered immune cells to seek out and tirelessly kill cancer cells.
