September 29, 2011
Brain tumor specimens taken from neurosurgery cases at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center has given scientists a new window on the transformation that occurs as healthy brain cells begin to form tumors. The work may help identify new drugs to target ...
September 7, 2011
Researchers with the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Merced will examine the effectiveness of state and local anti-smoking programs across the United States to ensure that health authorities are able to use their increasingly limited resources to support and defend ...
September 7, 2011
Girls may be vulnerable to environmental exposures that contribute to breast cancer decades later – the evidence comes from studies of Japanese atomic bomb survivors and studies of women who received radiation treatment for medical conditions when they were girls. Rodent studies also point to ...
September 1, 2011
For the first time in his life, 50-year-old Art Wagner is growing a beard. He wants people to ask why. He will tell them that he is a survivor of prostate cancer, the second-leading cause of cancer death in men. He will tell them that ...
August 29, 2011
Linda Giudice remembers the day, about 10 years ago, when a woman she was treating asked if her multiple miscarriages might have been the result of growing up on the Love Canal, a former toxic waste site near Niagara Falls. That conversation led to a ...August 24, 2011
Current estimates of the impact of chemotherapy on women’s reproductive health are too low, according to a University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) study. The researchers say their analysis of the age-specific, long-term effects of chemotherapy provides new insights that will help patients and clinicians ...
August 23, 2011
State governments, including California as well as others in Canada and the United Kingdom, pour hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into major motion pictures that depict smoking – leading to thousands of new teen smokers every year, a University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) ...August 12, 2011
What ills do we risk from radiation to which we are exposed naturally, by choice, or by accident? The question looms large in the aftermath of the meltdown of fuel rods from nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan. Months later, hot ...
August 1, 2011
A new collaboration has begun between the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula that will enhance patient care and access to clinical trials. The affiliation builds on the expertise already offered at Community Hospital, recipient of the ...
July 29, 2011
Seeking to improve care for people with brain tumors, neuro-oncologists at UCSF Medical Center are beginning to look beyond the patient to engage a patient’s family, friends and other caregivers. Caregivers often take on a large, central role in helping their loved ones through brain ...
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