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Similar Molecular Origins for Certain Breast and Ovarian Cancers
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Oakland Native Beats Cancer, Performs on Broadway
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Marijuana Compound Fights Cancer; Human Trials Next
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Findings Inspire Medical Pot Researcher
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Study Confirms Erroneous Link Between Prostate Cancer and Retrovirus from Mice
A once-promising discovery linking prostate cancer to an obscure retrovirus derived from mice was the result of an inadvertent laboratory contamination, a forensic analysis of tissue samples and lab experiments – some dating back nearly a decade – has confirmed.
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NIH Fosters High-Risk, High-Reward Innovation at UCSF
<p>Biomedical researchers at UCSF have won five of 51 prestigious National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator awards for high-risk, high-reward research, each receiving up to $1.5 million over five years.</p>
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Pot Use May Raise Risk of Testicular Cancer: Study
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New Cancer Drugs Are Showing Great Promise
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A Look Around The Bend On The Health Innovation Highway
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Can There Be too Much Breast-Cancer Treatment?
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Cancer Drug Helps Patient Despite Faltering in Trials
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Mammograms and Dense Breasts, Questions Abound
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Research Offers New Hope for HIV/AIDS Patients with Cancer
<p>A proposed new treatment to help HIV/AIDS patients suffering from Kaposi’s sarcoma, the most common form of cancer in people with HIV, is now one step closer to becoming a reality thanks to a program that supports promising early-stage research.</p>
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Mammogram Study: Dense Breasts Won't Raise Cancer Death Risk in Women
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Study: Dense Breast Tissue Doesn't Add Cancer Death Risk
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'Active Surveillance' Isn't Passively Waiting
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Margaret Stauffer Cancer Q&A
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Active-surveillance Protocol for Tumors
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In Vietnamese Community, Treating Taboos on Cancer
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Deserve to Die Campaign
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The Big Wait
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Robot Prostatectomy Cuts Incontinence, Surgeon Finds
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Helping Kids Describe Cancer Symptoms Through Cartoons and Digital Technology
<p>Preliminary results of a recent study by Christina Baggott, a trained oncology nurse, found that children with cancer were significantly more likely to weigh in on their symptoms when using a kid-friendly touch-screen computer assessment tool, than the standard written checklist.</p>
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Marin County's High Breast Cancer Rate May be Tied to Genetics
Marin County, Calif., has one of the highest rates of breast cancer in the world, a fact that scientists know has nothing to do with the land itself but with some other, unknown factor.
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UCSF Team Engineers 'Safety Switches' for Immune Therapies
A UCSF team has harnessed a natural protein in bacteria to create a “pause switch” in immune cells, potentially leading to more effective and safer immune therapies for diseases such as cancer and multiple sclerosis.
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New Treatment Could Zap Skin from Cancer
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Cancer Support Community's New Service
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Melanoma Treatment Shows Promise at UCSF
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Deadly Liver Cancer May Be Triggered by Cells Changing Identity, UCSF Study Shows
UCSF researchers triggered cellular transformation — and caused tumors to form in mice — by activating just two genes, a discovery that suggests drugs that are able to target those genes may provide a way to treat the deadly cancer, known as cholangiocarcinoma.