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A UC San Francisco cancer researcher has led a team of data scientists and engineers to win a first-of-its-kind Artificial Intelligence (AI) Genomics Hackathon competition. Jyotika ‘Jo’ Varshney, DVM, PhD, a UCSF postdoctoral fellow, and her three teammates were named the winners at the event, which

Postmenopausal patients with "ultralow-risk" breast cancers may be able to forgo standard endocrine treatment with tamoxifen, which is routinely prescribed after surgery for many patients. The new findings come from a long-term follow-up of patients who were retrospectively tested with the

​Youth-rated films, which are designed and marketed as kid-friendly, continue to fill the movie screen with tobacco imagery, according to a new report from UC San Francisco, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other entities. Nearly half (46 percent) of the films with smoking

A molecular test can pinpoint which patients will have a very low risk of death from breast cancer even 20 years after diagnosis and tumor removal, according to a new clinical study led by UC San Francisco in collaboration with colleagues in Sweden. As a result, “ultralow” risk patients could be

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, with campuses in San Francisco and Oakland, rank among the country’s best in nine specialties, according to U.S. News & World Report’s survey of 187 pediatric hospitals nationwide. The two hospitals, which affiliated in January 2014, rank best in the Bay Area in

UCSF had an impressive presence at this year's annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncologists (ASCO) in Chicago. One of the world’s most prestigious gatherings of oncology professionals, ASCO 2017 drew more than 40,000 cancer experts focusing on groundbreaking research and advances

A proposal for an artificial intelligence-based skin cancer screening tool won the 2017 Cancer Center Impact Grant, a $250,000 award to support high-risk, high-reward research projects that are unlikely to be funded by conventional sources. The Cancer Center Impact Grant, which provides $250,000