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E-Cigarette Use Exposes Teens to Toxic Chemicals
Adolescents who smoke e-cigarettes are exposed to significant levels of potentially cancer-causing chemicals also found in tobacco cigarettes, even when the e-cigarettes do not contain nicotine.
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Teens inhale cancer-causing chemicals in e-cigarettes
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Strength in numbers: UCSF is forging collaborative partnerships in new fights against cancer
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Genome Sequencing Uncovers Therapy for Rare Brain Tumor
New research led by David Solomon, an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology at UCSF, provides much-needed targeted treatment options for patients whose tumors cannot be surgically removed.
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Cancer-Killing Virus Acts by Alerting Immune System
A new UCSF study has shown that a cancer-killing (“oncolytic”) virus currently in clinical trials may function as a cancer vaccine.
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Current PSA Monitoring Ignores Risk to Some Prostate Cancer Survivors
In older men who survived low-risk cancer and have limited life expectancy, frequent PSA screenings may do more harm than good
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Apalutamide Delays Progression of Nonmetastatic, Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
Treatment with an investigational androgen receptor inhibitor significantly delayed the development of metastasis in patients with prostate cancer that had become resistant to standard androgen-deprivation therapy.
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Scientists pluck a light-sensitive protein from plants to study cancer metastasis
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Researchers Invent Reversible 'Off-Switch' for Cellular Proteins
UCSF scientists have invented a technique that lets them precisely and reversibly disrupt the action of specific cellular proteins at a microscopic scale by making them split apart when illuminated with blue light.
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New Approach Attacks 'Undruggable' Cancers from the Outside In
Researchers at UCSF have found a way to attack one of the most common drivers of lung, colorectal, and pancreatic cancer by targeting the proteins it produces on the outside of the cell.
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Bo Huang Delivers 2018 Byers Award Lecture on Boundary-Pushing Microscopy
Huang highlighted the microscopy work in his lab that has enabled a clearer understanding of the function of cells and the processes that underlie disease.
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San Francisco Cancer Initiative Identifies 1st Year Progress, Challenges
SF CAN is targeting the five most common cancers which collectively account for half of all new cancers in San Francisco.
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Teens who start vaping are more likely to end up smoking, UCSF study finds
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Solving the Hardest Problems in Health
UCSF: The Campaign is taking on the world’s most complex health challenges, powered by an exceptional community of mavericks, innovators, and advocates. Together we will make the Bay Area and our world healthier for all.
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DNA Annotations Predict Patient Outcomes in Childhood Leukemia
UCSF physician-scientists have developed a test that can predict how patients with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia will respond to treatment.
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Too Many Older Patients Get Cancer Screenings
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New Immunotherapy for Deadly Childhood Brain Cancer Targets Novel 'Neoantigen'
Children with an extremely deadly form of brain cancer might benefit from a new treatment that aims to direct an immune response against a mutant form of a protein found exclusively on cancer cells.
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Cell Mapping Initiatives Aim to Uncover Hidden Pathways of Disease
UCSF researchers are leading several initiatives that aim to see how dozens of seemingly unrelated genes and proteins involved in a disease are in fact all part the same interconnected biological pathway.
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Deadly Lung Cancers are Driven by Multiple Genetic Changes
New research finds one of the world’s most deadly forms of lung cancer is driven by changes in multiple different genes.
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Preventing Disease Through Social Media: UCSF Doctor Gets Creative with Health Interventions
Smartphones and emotional crises, social media and tanning beds are seemingly disconnected – but UCSF researcher Eleni Linos has started to make an impact on health by her focus on how technology can influence our behaviors.
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Survivors of Childhood Leukemia with Down Syndrome Have Unique Health Risks, Benefits
A study challenges the belief that children with Down syndrome are significantly more susceptible to leukemia.
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UCSF at Dreamforce 2017: Precision Cancer Care and Public Health Tech
One of UCSF’s groundbreaking cancer programs will be prominently featured at the 2017 Dreamforce conference through an interactive exposition and a talk by two researchers.
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Diverse Drug-Resistant Cancer Cells Share a Hidden Weakness
UCSF researchers have discovered a gene vulnerability that could let oncologists wipe out drug-resistant cancers across many different cancer types.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Public-Private ATOM Consortium Aims to Cut Preclinical Cancer Drug Discovery from Six Years to One
Scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, GSK, and the University of California, San Francisco will hold a briefing to discuss Accelerating Therapeutics for Opportunities in Medicine
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Big Data Shows How Cancer Interacts with Its Surroundings
UCSF researchers have identified a molecular signature in tissue adjacent to tumors in eight of the most common cancers that suggests they are all using the same mechanism to remodel normal tissue and spread.
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Researchers to Combat Drug-Resistant Lung Cancer at New NCI-Funded Center at UCSF
The NCI has announced that UCSF will host one of five new Cancer Drug Resistance and Sensitivity Centers being set up around the U.S. through funding from the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016.
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Two UCSF Scientists Win NIH New Innovator Awards
Two UCSF scientists have been awarded NIH New Innovator Awards, which support unusually innovative research from early career investigators.
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I Treated Breast Cancer for Years as a Doctor. Then I Was Diagnosed
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The big question: Will cancer immune therapy work for me?