October 30, 2009
Experts from UCSF and around North America will discuss the latest developments in cancer prevention at the 2009 UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Symposium on Thursday, Nov. 5.
The symposium, titled "The Prevention of Cancer," is open to the campus community and will ...
October 27, 2009
Philanthropists Irwin and Joan Jacobs of La Jolla, CA are giving a $6.5 million gift to UCSF for head and neck cancer research. It is believed to be the largest private, U.S. gift for research supporting this disease. Irwin Jacobs is the founder, retired CEO, ...
October 27, 2009
Twenty years of screening for breast and prostate cancer - the most diagnosed cancer for women and men - have not brought the anticipated decline in deaths from these diseases, argue experts from the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Texas Health ...
October 21, 2009
M. Anthony Pogrel, DMD, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in the UCSF School of Dentistry, received the 2009 William J. Gies Foundation Award in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, on Oct. 14.
He received the award during the opening ...
October 17, 2009
UCSF will host a free educational seminar on Saturday, Oct. 31 aimed at individuals with colorectal cancer -- a disease that kills nearly 50,000 Americans each year but is often curable if caught early.
The seminar, "Conversations about Colorectal Cancer," will offer patients the opportunity ...
October 16, 2009
Scientists from the UCSF School of Pharmacy's Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry have been selected to lead a new federal initiative aimed at developing new classes of drugs to target cancer.
According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), "To advance the NCI's mission of bringing novel ...
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