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Life-or-death verdicts in cancer often result from the ways microscopic kinks and folds in proteins fit together within a tumor cell. While in college, Trever Bivona, MD, PhD, was fascinated by the idea that a single protein’s twists could determine the trajectory of the disease. Making the

University of California Health committed to enabling patients to access and share their own health data, joining more than 40 other organizations that made various commitments to advance precision medicine during a White House summit this week. The Precision Medicine Initiative Summit, hosted by

Nevan Krogan, PhD, thinks genomics has brought us closer to a revolution in cancer treatment than most geneticists even realize. “There’s been a tsunami of genetic data about different cancers,” says Krogan, a UC San Francisco professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and member of the UCSF

from the Wall Street Journal, Feb 23, 2016: A new clinic in San Francisco is opening with an unusual mission: to provide care for people affected by mutations in two particular genes linked to a high risk of cancer. The move highlights the ways growing knowledge about the genetics of the disease is

UC San Francisco scientists have created a new class of highly customizable biological sensors that can be used to form “logic gates” inside cells of the immune system, giving these cells the capability to home in on and kill a wide range of cancer cells while preventing them from attacking normal

Documenting that it’s never too late to quit smoking, a large study of breast cancer survivors has found that those who quit smoking after their diagnosis had a 33 percent lower risk of death as a result of breast cancer than those who continued to smoke. The study involved more than 20,600 women

In response to low national vaccination rates for the human papillomavirus (HPV), the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center has joined the other 68 NCI-designated cancer centers in issuing a statement urging for increased HPV vaccination for the prevention of cancer. These