November 21, 2006
One by one, the patients who created Art for Recovery's latest quilt scanned the panels looking for the quilt square they had made. It was both an emotional and stirring moment, as it was the first time many of them had seen the quilt in ...November 17, 2006
To his many friends and acquaintances, Dixon Heise epitomized the San Francisco gentleman: sharp in mind, witty yet gracious in manner. After his death last February at age 89, another aspect of his character was cast in sharp relief: his incredible generosity of spirit. A ...November 16, 2006
A vaccine for treating a recurrent cancer of the central nervous system that occurs primarily in the brain, known as glioma, has shown promising results in preliminary data from a clinical trial at UCSF Medical Center. Findings from the first group of six patients in ...November 15, 2006
A novel method for predicting the risk of prostate cancer recurrence following surgery that was developed by urologists at UCSF Medical Center has been validated in a recent study. The new method is named the UCSF Cancer of the Prostate Risk Assessment (CAPRA). It is ...November 14, 2006
A study of almost 600,000 men aged 70 and older reveals that 56 percent had a routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening, a blood test for prostate cancer, even though no treatment guidelines recommend PSA screening for men of that age. Screening rates declined with age, ...November 9, 2006
The drug imatinib (Gleevec) is generally considered to be the most significant new entrant in the armamentarium of anticancer drugs in the past 20 years. Its approval in May 2001 was the cover story of Time magazine. In patients whose cancers had grown despite earlier ...
Her mother’s “good” battle against breast cancer inspires Hope Rugo to discover more effective treatments.
Meet more of Our Heroes »Video profile of @UCSF breast cancer "Innovator" and #EUIC2014 Winner Dr. Laura van 't Veer: http://t.co/r26C5yG95n
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