Though he admits he's not that great a swimmer, pediatric oncologist Rob Goldsby, MD, is going to take the plunge to raise money for UCSF Children's Hospital patients with cancer. On Saturday, Sept. 23, Goldsby, an assistant professor of pediatrics at UCSF, will join former ...

People with red hair, light skin or freckles are more likely than others to develop the deadliest skin cancer -- malignant melanoma. A single gene greatly influences these traits. A new study now demonstrates that the same gene is especially likely to put individuals at ...

The UCSF Osher Center of Integrative Medicine today announced the appointment of Donald I. Abrams, MD, professor of clinical medicine, as the center's new director of clinical programs. Abrams, a UCSF faculty member for 23 years, has been a part of the Osher Center clinical ...

Sandra deQuant will never forget her 49th birthday: the following day, she was told she had anal cancer. "I was in a state of shock," remembers deQuant. "I didn't know what to expect and had never heard of anal cancer before." Although rare, anal cancer ...

In the summer of 1993, when Elaine Taylor, a mother of three, was in the middle of pursuing a lifelong dream getting a college degree in English literature at the University of California, Berkeley she received some devastating news: she had advanced ovarian cancer and ...

When Mack Roach III, MD, was named as interim chair of the UCSF Radiation Oncology department in January, he saw it an opportunity and a challenge. Within the first six months, the department has shown more than subtle changes. In tandem with oversight of the ...