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Write to Fight Cancer Workshop Gives Tools to Face Disease

November 23, 2010

Attendees at the Write to Fight Cancer workshop at UCSF's Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center's Art for Recovery Program were young and old, women and men, in active treatment and in remission. But they all had a story to tell, a story of how ...

Smoking Is Associated with More Deaths among Women with Breast Cancer

November 9, 2010

Women who feel they need another good reason to quit smoking might want to consider their breast cancer risk. Those afflicted with breast cancer who smoke or who have smoked in the past are much less likely to survive the disease, according to a new ...

CT Screening for Lung Cancer among Heavy Smokers Saves Lives

November 9, 2010

CT scans to detect lung cancer early can save lives, according to a study of 53,456 current and former smokers ages 55 to 74. The study findings were announced by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- which funded the massive study -- on Novembers ...

Genetics Research Accelerates Pace of Knowledge Gains

November 2, 2010

New technologies and techniques continue to accelerate the pace of discovery in human genetics research, a fact made clear by scientists who spoke about their searches for important mutations, gene variants and answers to basic biological questions at the UCSF Institute for Human Genetics' fifth-anniversary ...

Giants Greats Bring Piece of World Series to Patients at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital

October 28, 2010

Giants fever came to UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital today (Oct. 27) when San Francisco Giants Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry, Giants legend Vida Blue and mascot Lou Seal visited patients battling cancer. The Giants, Major League Baseball and Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) teamed up ...

UCSF Breaks Ground on State-of-the-Art Mission Bay Medical Center

October 27, 2010

After a decade in the works, UCSF broke ground on Tuesday on a state-of-the-art and sustainable medical center at Mission Bay - a 289-bed, 878,000 square-foot complex that promises to transform care for women, children and cancer patients. More than 200 community members, elected officials, ...