In April, Laura Crocitto, MD, MHA, joined UCSF as the first Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Cancer Services. An experienced urologic oncologist and physician executive, she will work in a dyad with Laurel Bray-Hanin, Vice President and COO for Adult Cancer Services, and ...

San Francisco could become the first city in the nation to ban flavored tobacco products from all store shelves. This includes everything from candy flavored e-cigarettes to conventional menthol smokes. 'The industry recognized decades ago that if they don’t get kids to start, they [the ...

KPIX 5 original report: A revolutionary, one-time treatment is giving new hope to cancer patients by treating them with their own immune cells that have been altered in a lab to become cancer killers.

UC San Francisco researchers have discovered a promising new line of attack against lethal, treatment-resistant prostate cancer. Analysis of hundreds of human prostate tumors revealed that the most aggressive cancers depend on a built-in cellular stress response to put a brake on their own hot-wired ...

Automated breast-density evaluation was just as accurate in predicting women’s risk of breast cancer, found and not found by mammography, as subjective evaluation done by radiologists, in a study led by researchers at UC San Francisco and Mayo Clinic. Both assessment methods were equally accurate ...