February 25, 2010
A new discovery about cancer and the immune system points to previously unrecognized targets for drug development to battle solid tumors. The research also suggests that a drug already in use for more than a decade to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma might also be useful in ...February 3, 2010
Before coming to UCSF, Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, was a practicing oncologist, and later she was president of product development at Genentech, where she took the lead in developing some of the most successful cancer-fighting drugs in history. Among these drugs are Avastin, Rituxan, ...January 14, 2010
A significant percentage of U.S. women 70 years or older who were severely cognitively impaired received screening mammography that was unlikely to benefit them, according to a study of 2,131 elderly women conducted by researchers from the University of California, San Francisco. Overall, 18 percent ...January 14, 2010
David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD, a physician, neuroscientist, science writer, founding member of Doctors Without Borders and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, will speak at UCSF on preventing and treating cancer. Members of the UCSF community are invited to ...January 13, 2010
Released jointly by St. Helena Hospital and UCSF Medical Center The Martin-O'Neil Cancer Center at St. Helena Hospital and the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCSF Medical Center have begun an affiliation that will provide North Bay patients with access to clinical ...January 13, 2010
African Americans comprise six percent of the California adult population, yet they account for over eight percent of the state's smoking-attributable health care expenditures and 13 percent of smoking-attributable mortality costs, according to a new analysis by UCSF researchers. In order to provide an objective ...Copyright © 2013-2014 University of California Regents. All Rights Reserved.
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