February 21, 2020
In 1993, Society of Urologic Oncology initiated an annual award and lectureship in honor of Dr. Willet Whitmore, who had been involved in early discussions on the formation of the Society and is considered the father of urologic oncology. Peter Carroll, MD, MPH is the recipient ...
February 12, 2020
Within the next few months, the UCSF Brain Tumor Center will begin recruiting for a multi-center clinical trial to evaluate AG-881, a small molecule drug, for treatment of residual or recurrent IDH-mutant grade II glioma.
AG-881 is a drug that inhibits the mutated forms of ...
February 12, 2020
Even with more than 125 years of caring for San Francisco residents, the faculty and staff at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General (ZSFG) and UCSF find that some issues need more than time to resolve. In this case, it’s the inequities and barriers to care ...
February 10, 2020
A tobacco company that diversified into the food and drink business targeted black and Hispanic consumers in the same way as they had courted them as cigarette smokers, according to a study by UC San Francisco researchers.
Lead author Kim H. Nguyen, ScD, together with Laura Schmidt, ...
February 6, 2020
UCSF Health and John Muir Health have reached the first significant milestone in developing a cancer network to enhance access to cancer care for patients throughout the East Bay, with the opening of the UCSF-John Muir Health Cancer Center at 3100 San Pablo Ave., in Berkeley.
The ...
February 6, 2020
Survival may more than double for adults with glioblastoma, the most common and deadly type of brain tumor, if neurosurgeons remove the surrounding tissue as aggressively as they remove the cancerous core of the tumor.
This discovery, reported in a retrospective study headed by ...
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