"Have you ever seen a relative go through the cancer process?" That's the first question San Francisco writer Doreen DeSalvo poses when asked whether she regrets getting tested -- and testing positively -- for Lynch syndrome. Lynch syndrome is a hereditary cancer that carries a ...

Much of what we know about how DNA repairs sun-damaged skin -- or fails to do so -- has arisen in the last few decades, thanks to scientists like UCSF's Jim Cleaver, PhD. Cleaver has a very long list of titles, including member of the ...

UCSF postdoctoral scholars Thomas M. Huckaba, PhD, and Melissa R. Junttila, PhD, have been named among 18 new Damon Runyan Fellows by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation at the Foundation's May 2007 Scientific Advisory Committee review. Recipients of the prestigious, three-year award are outstanding ...

Eric Small, MD, a professor in residence of medicine and urology and interim chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology, has been named director of investigational therapeutics in the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center. Frank McCormick, PhD, director of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center and Cancer Research ...

UCSF clinicians and researchers are joining with counterparts far and wide to conduct large studies that will yield the statistical power necessary to clearly identify factors associated with risk for pancreas cancer. So far, the only undisputed factors known to increase one's chances of getting ...

For many infectious diseases, a strategy for drug design is clear: Find something that kills what's causing the disease that won't kill the patient. But what's the best approach when our own cells spread within and make us sick -- as when normal cells turn ...