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3-D Virtual Reality Colonoscopy: Pursuing a Better Path to Colorectal Cancer Prevention
At UCSF’s 3-D Imaging Lab, radiologist Judy Yee, MD, pulls up an image that looks more like a birthday party balloon animal than a patient’s colon: a vibrant, color-segmented tube, torqued and twisted in on itself. Created from thin slices of a computed tomography (CT) scan, the image appears
UC ramps up role for White House's Cancer Moonshot
At the White House’s Cancer Moonshot Summit on Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden announced new actions to speed progress toward ending cancer as we know it, with several efforts involving the University of California. The Cancer Moonshot aims to double the rate of progress – to make a decade's
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals Excel in Pediatric Specialties
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals have placed among the nation’s premier children’s hospitals in all 10 pediatric specialties. The hospitals ranked among the top 25 in eight of the 10 specialties and were best in the Bay Area in five practices – cancer, diabetes and endocrinology, neonatology
UCSF Researcher Part of Consortium Awarded $7.5M to Evaluate Breast Imaging Strategies
Karla Kerlikowske, MD, a co-principal investigator of the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium(BCSC), is part of the team awarded $7.5 million by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute(PCORI) board of governors to determine the effectiveness of two supplemental breast screening and
Developments in Cancer Research and Care, from Prostate Cancer to Breast Cancer to Immunotherapy
Cancer specialists from UC San Francisco will share information on advances in research during the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), one of the world’s most prestigious gatherings of oncology professionals. The meeting, which will be held June 3-7 in Chicago, is
A Slight Increase in Pediatric Cancer Risk Seen with Infant Phototherapy
Phototherapy, increasingly used to treat jaundiced infants, could very slightly raise the risk of pediatric cancers, particularly myeloid leukemia, according to epidemiological research published online on May 23 in Pediatrics. At very high levels, bilirubin, a byproduct of the normal breakdown of
Better Survival for Colon Cancer Patients with Left-Sided Tumors
The chances of surviving colon cancer could depend on which side of the colon the cancer strikes. A national study led by a UC San Francisco oncologist has found that patients with metastatic colon cancer that develops on the left side of the colon survive significantly longer than those with