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Cancer.
I'm building the tools.

Martin McMahon hopes to understand in greater detail the way that human cancers develop and respond to therapy.

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Cancer.
I'm challenging it.

For neuro-oncologist Susan Chang, the partnership she builds with her patients is more than a privilege.

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Cancer.
I’m fighting it.

Interest in art and physics fuels drive to improve radiation therapy.

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UCSF Wins Grant of More than $9 Million to Transform Treatment of Prostate Cancer

December 5, 2013

UC San Francisco has been awarded a major federal grant to "transform and revolutionize" the treatment of prostate cancer, the second most common form of cancer among American men.

Electronic Cigarettes: New Route to Smoking Addiction For Adolescents

November 25, 2013

E-cigarettes have been widely promoted as a way for people to quit smoking conventional cigarettes.

UCSF Scientist Wins $89M Grant to Study Anal Cancer In HIV-Infected People

November 21, 2013

A UC San Francisco investigator has won an eight-year grant from the National Cancer Institute for a major investigation into anal cancer, a debilitating and sometimes fatal disease largely concentrated among people with HIV.

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