March 14, 2007
UCSF Fellow Dejana Braithwaite, PhD, MSc, is the 2007 recipient of the American Society of Preventive Oncology (ASPO) and the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation (CRPF) Fellowship, and the New Investigator Award for the 31st Annual ASPO Meeting.
Braithwaite was selected from a national pool ...
March 12, 2007
A special seminar at UCSF on Monday, March 12, will focus on educating transplant patients about the potential risk of skin cancer.
Organ transplant recipients have a high risk of developing skin cancer, but information about this link had not been readily available to patients ...
March 9, 2007
An environment rife with arsenic, tungsten, cobalt and jet fuel does not seem adequate to explain an unusually high incidence of childhood leukemia -- three deaths and 16 cases in all -- that first struck Fallon, Nevada, almost a decade ago. Despite a major public ...
February 28, 2007
John K. Chan, MD, has been named the new chief of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the UCSF School of Medicine.
He will assume his new post on March 1.
As chief of gynecologic oncology, Chan will ...
February 23, 2007
Clinicians dream of being able to diagnose cancer reliably with a simple lab test. Cancerous cells make some proteins abnormally. Some of these proteins are secreted or shed, and make their way into body fluids. The quest to identify proteins in blood or urine that ...
February 19, 2007
As evidence mounts that the body's normally protective inflammation response can drive some precancerous tissues to become fully malignant, UCSF scientists report discovering an apparent trigger to this potentially deadly process.
Typically, the "innate" immune system's Pac-Man-like white blood cells, or leukocytes, engulf and destroy ...