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UCSF hosted NASA astronauts and scientists in a daylong, invitational scientific roundtable in conjunction with the White House Cancer Moonshot Initiative. Astronauts also visited pediatric patients at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco, and greeted event attendees.
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals have tied as the best hospitals in Northern California in the 2024-2025 U.S. News & World Report Best Children’s Hospitals list.
With rising rates of colorectal cancers in younger people, UCSF experts tell you that getting screened for cancer may be as easy as getting a flu shot.
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. and worldwide, pointing to the continuing need to improve treatment strategies and therapies that better patient survival and
The UC Board of Regents approved UCSF’s proposal to build a proton therapy facility as part of the redevelopment of the former Dogpatch Power Station, which will join only 45 other sites nationwide and will be the only facility to offer the leading-edge cancer therapy between Los Angeles and Seattle.
Black men are more than twice as likely to die of prostate cancer than their white peers. An innovative community-based UCSF program is increasing screenings among San Francisco's Black communities.
Scientists discover how to drug GTPases, a group of 150 critical enzymes that act like "switches" in cells, which cause a wide variety of diseases such as cancer and Parkinson’s disease when mutated.
Mack Roach, III, MD, FASTRO, has been chosen by the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) to receive its 2024 Gold Medal Award. Roach is being recognized with ASTRO’s highest honor for his
The UCSF Prostate Cancer Program will receive about $7 million from the National Cancer Institute to develop new approaches to the prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.
Mekhail Anwar leads a multi-institution $15 million grant from ARPA-H to develop imaging technology to improve cancer surgery.
A breakthrough study shows how a ketogenic diet alters human metabolism and makes a particular pancreatic cancer drug effective by starving tumors of fat that they feed on to grow.
Results from a national study led by UCSF informed the first guidelines at the federal level in the U.S. to detect and treat anal cancer precursor lesions in people with HIV to reduce the risk of developing anal cancer.
Transgender women on hormone therapy tend to skew artificially low on prostate cancer screening tests, which may give false reassurance and delay diagnosis and treatment, reports a new study led by UC
Oncology specialists from around the world came together for the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting to discuss the latest developments in cancer care, research,
Three UC San Francisco scientists have received 2024 Pew awards to fund their research in neuroscience and cancer: cognitive scientist Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri, PhD; bioengineer Justin Eyquem, PhD; and postodctoral student Jovanka Gencel-Augusto, PhD.
Our genome may one day serve as a passport guiding our health care – from cradle to grave.
Gastrointestinal cancer surgeons at the UCSF performed the health system’s 15,000th robotically assisted minimally invasive surgery, making it the first University of California health center to reach this milestone.
Researchers have found links between lung microbial communities and mortality risk in pediatric bone marrow transplant patients. Metagenomic sequencing revealed distinct patient clusters and unexpected pathogens, highlighting the need for precise diagnostics and therapeutics. Antibiotic treatment was associated with bacterial depletion and enriched viral and fungal populations.
Energy expended for hospital and clinic electricity, climate control and ventilation is by far the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in radiotherapy, a treatment used in more than half of cancer cases.
UCSF will lead the first long-term study of cancer among Asian Americans, a highly diverse yet understudied group, with the help of a $12.45 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Eating more fruits, vegetables, nuts and olive oil could significantly reduce the chances of prostate cancer progression.
Leading cancer researchers from UC San Francisco presented talks about advances in targeted therapy, cancer genomics, eliminating treatment disparities and other cancer research topics at this year’s
New CAR-T gene therapy techniques could extend survival for patients with glioblastoma.
UCSF scientists have been awarded more than $30 million to develop “tissue GPS,” a new system using engineered T cells to guide therapies directly to their targets in the brain to treat neurological diseases like cancer, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s.
Researchers recently identified a universal, essential biomarker for the childhood cancer neuroblastoma – and the biomarker could be a potential new target for treatment. Neuroblastoma accounts for