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Research Finds 'Achilles Heel' for Aggressive Prostate Cancer
UC San Francisco researchers have discovered a promising new line of attack against lethal, treatment-resistant prostate cancer. Analysis of hundreds of human prostate tumors revealed that the most aggressive cancers depend on a built-in cellular stress response to put a brake on their own hot
Join All of Us: California Researchers Call for Volunteers as NIH's Landmark Precision Medicine Research Effort Launches Nationwide
The All of Us Research Program officially opens for enrollment Sunday, May 6. Led by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), All of Us is an unprecedented effort to gather genetic, biological, environmental, health and lifestyle data from 1 million or more volunteer participants living in the
Computers Equal Radiologists in Assessing Breast Density and Associated Breast Cancer Risk
Automated breast-density evaluation was just as accurate in predicting women’s risk of breast cancer, found and not found by mammography, as subjective evaluation done by radiologists, in a study led by researchers at UC San Francisco and Mayo Clinic. Both assessment methods were equally accurate in
UNICEF "Muted" on Tobacco Control for Children
The tobacco industry manipulated the renowned children’s rights agency UNICEF for more than a dozen years, from 2003 until at least 2016, during which time UNICEF’s focus on children’s rights to a tobacco-free life was reduced, according to previously secret documents uncovered by UC San Francisco
Considering Race in Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations
An article titled ‘ Race matters for breast cancer screening protocols,’ was published last month on AuntMinnie.com. The article highlights a study published online in JAMA Surgery that examined the age distribution of breast cancer diagnosis in the United States across race and ethnicity. The
Gene Mapping Lays Groundwork for Precision Chemotherapy
Despite the great successes of targeted cancer drugs and the promise of novel immunotherapies, the vast majority of people diagnosed with cancer are still first treated with chemotherapy. Now a new study by UCSF researchers using techniques drawn from computational biology could make it much
Jason Cyster Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
UC San Francisco immunologist Jason Cyster, PhD, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which honors exceptional scholars, leaders, artists, and innovators. Cyster is professor of microbiology and immunology at UCSF and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He is