In the summer of 1993, when Elaine Taylor, a mother of three, was in the middle of pursuing a lifelong dream getting a college degree in English literature at the University of California, Berkeley she received some devastating news: she had advanced ovarian cancer and ...

When Mack Roach III, MD, was named as interim chair of the UCSF Radiation Oncology department in January, he saw it an opportunity and a challenge. Within the first six months, the department has shown more than subtle changes. In tandem with oversight of the ...

More than 2,300 participants in the July 8 and 9 Avon Walk for Breast Cancer San Francisco raised $5.4 million for the breast cancer cause. Upon completion of this year's event, the Avon Foundation announced eight grants to local organizations, including a $1 million grant ...

Yuet Wai Kan, MD, DSc, an internationally recognized leader in the field of human genetics, was honored Thursday (July 20) with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America. It is the first time the award has been presented. Kan is ...

Rebecca Genet shares a special bond with the third graders she teaches at Brandeis Hillel Day School in Marin County, her alma mater. So when her stepmother died of cancer, her students wanted to comfort Rebecca and help others with the disease. At school, the ...

Ruth E. Malone, RN, PhD, a professor of nursing and health policy in the UCSF School of Nursing's Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, is one of three individuals honored for their use of tobacco industry documents to educate the public about tactics that tobacco ...