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UCSF Study: Boosting Cigarette Tax Could Bolster California Economy by $2 Billion
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The Athena Breast Health Network
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State Economy to Get Big Jolt with Proposed New Tax on Cigarettes, Study Finds
A new UCSF analysis has found that a state ballot initiative to increase the cigarette tax would create about 12,000 jobs and nearly $2 billion in new economic activity in California.
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Exercise Improves Survival in Cancer Patients
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From the Balance Beam to the State Bar
<p>In a triumph of the human spirit and life-saving health care, Angelica Galang, 23, is now attending law school after UCSF neurosurgeon Philip Weinstein removed a five-inch tumor in one of the most complex spinal surgeries of its kind.</p>
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Science Shows How Exercise Might Help in Prostate Cancer
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Vigorous Exercise Linked to Gene Activity in Prostate
Scientists at UCSF have identified nearly 200 genes in the healthy prostate tissue of men with low-grade prostate cancer that may help explain how physical activity improves survival from the disease.
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Lung Cancer Test Predicts Likelihood of Death
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New Lung Cancer Test Predicts Survival
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Gene Test May Aid Early-Stage Lung Cancer Patients
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Gene Test May Help Determine Early Lung Cancer Survival
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New Lung Cancer Test Predicts Survival
In the two largest clinical studies ever conducted on the molecular genetics of lung cancer, an international team led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has demonstrated that an available molecular test can predict the likelihood of death from early-stage lung cancer more accurately than conventional methods.
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Many Breast Cancer Patients Uninformed About Options: Study
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Some Breast Cancer Spread May Be Triggered By Targetable Protein, Study Shows
Scientists from the University of Helsinki, Finland, and UCSF have identified a cleaver-wielding protein that frees some tumor cells, allowing them to further misbehave. The discovery points to a new target for therapy.
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Smoking Pot Doesn't Hurt Lung Capacity, Study Shows
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Nicotine Patches, Gums Won't Help Smokers Quit Long-Term
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Treatment Fails to Preserve Ovarian Function After Chemotherapy
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The Tobacco Industry Lied
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Tobacco Firm Skewed Toxicology Findings
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Don't Believe Hype About Robot Prostatectomy: Study
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Cancer Researchers Win Grants
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UCSF Cancer-Drug Spinoff Acquired for $190 Million
<p>A cancer drug company founded by UCSF Professor <a href="http://cancer.ucsf.edu/people/shokat_kevan.php">Kevan Shokat</a>, PhD, has been acquired by Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceuticals in an effort to add two novel drug projects to Takeda’s pipeline of potential oncology therapies.</p>
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I'm Feeling Healthy
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Glioblastoma Multiforme Brain Tumors
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Opting to Track, Not Treat, Early Prostate Cancer
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New Moves To Fast Track Breast Cancer Drug Trials
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Breast Cancer Trial Could Speed approval of New Drugs
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SF Businessman, Philanthropist, Bluegrass Man Warren Hellman Dies at 77
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UCSF's Blackburn Inducted into the California Hall of Fame
<p>UCSF Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, whose co-discovery of an enzyme involved in cell aging and cancers opened a whole new field of scientific inquiry, was inducted into the <a href="">California Hall of Fame</a> on Dec. 8, 2011. </p>
