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UCSF Health Cancer Experts Featured at Premier Cancer Meeting News

UCSF Health Cancer Experts Featured at Premier Cancer Meeting

Oncology specialists from around the world came together for the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting to discuss the latest developments in cancer care, research, technology and education.
Precision Breast Cancer Trial Shows Improved Treatment by Tumor Subtype News

Precision Breast Cancer Trial Shows Improved Treatment by Tumor Subtype

Despite recent advances in the treatment of breast cancer, it remains the second leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. and worldwide.
UCSF Radiation Oncologist Honored for Prostate Cancer Care and Research News

UCSF Radiation Oncologist Honored for Prostate Cancer Care and Research

American Society of Radiation Oncology celebrates Mack Roach, III, MD, for profound impact on patient treatment and leadership in cancer disparities treatment outcomes.
Powerful New Mini Microscopic Will Enable Precision Cancer Surgery News

Powerful New Mini Microscopic Will Enable Precision Cancer Surgery

UCSF’s Mekhail Anwar wins an up to $15 million award from ARPA-H to develop a next-generation miniature scanner powerful enough to detect individual cancer cells during surgery.
Panel Issues First Guidelines to Prevent Anal Cancer in People With HIV News

Panel Issues First Guidelines to Prevent Anal Cancer in People With HIV

Results from a national study led by UC San Francisco informed the first guidelines at the federal level in the United States to detect and treat anal cancer precursor lesions in people with HIV to reduce the risk of developing anal cancer.
UCSF Health Reaches 15,000 Robotic Surgeries News

UCSF Health Reaches 15,000 Robotic Surgeries

UCSF Health has the busiest robotic surgery program in the UC health system and is the leading academic medical institution for robotic surgeries in the western U.S.
Targeted Therapy, Treatment Disparity Featured at Cancer Meeting News

Targeted Therapy, Treatment Disparity Featured at Cancer Meeting

Leading cancer researchers from UC San Francisco presented talks about advances in targeted therapy, cancer genomics, eliminating treatment disparities and other cancer research topics at this year’s annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) conference...
Can a New Drug Candidate Cure Pancreatic Cancer? News

Can a New Drug Candidate Cure Pancreatic Cancer?

UC San Francisco researchers have designed a candidate drug that could help make pancreatic cancer, which is almost always fatal, a treatable, perhaps even curable, condition.
Physician Survey Shows Lack of Understanding of the FDA’s Approval Process News

Physician Survey Shows Lack of Understanding of the FDA’s Approval Process

Many physicians are unfamiliar with how the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) regulates new drugs and medical devices, and they may be under the impression that the data supporting these approvals are more rigorous than they are, according to a national survey of physicians conducted by researchers at UC San Francisco (UCSF). 
Radioligand Therapy Plus Pembrolizumab May Benefit Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer News

Radioligand Therapy Plus Pembrolizumab May Benefit Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer

Immune checkpoint inhibitors have demonstrated limited efficacy in treating prostate cancer. Efforts to improve outcomes with combination therapies have mostly failed to demonstrate improvements compared to other types of cancer.
Study Finds Significant Chemical Exposures in Women With Cancer News

Study Finds Significant Chemical Exposures in Women With Cancer

In a sign that exposure to certain endocrine-disrupting chemicals may be playing a role in cancers of the breast, ovary, skin and uterus, researchers have found that people who developed those cancers have significantly higher levels of these chemicals in their bodies.
Inclusion of New Risk Factors Can Improve Prediction of Invasive Breast Cancer News

Inclusion of New Risk Factors Can Improve Prediction of Invasive Breast Cancer

UCSF researchers update Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium model to account for BMI and other familial risk factors.
UCSF Cancer Researcher Thomas Martin Receives $4.6 million CIRM Grant News

UCSF Cancer Researcher Thomas Martin Receives $4.6 million CIRM Grant

UC San Francisco’s Thomas G. Martin, MD, a leading expert in blood cancers, has received a grant of nearly $4.6 million from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to produce a CAR T cell therapy for multiple myeloma, the second most common malignancy among blood cancers. 
Can Gene Expression Predict if a Brain Tumor Is Likely to Grow Back? News

Can Gene Expression Predict if a Brain Tumor Is Likely to Grow Back?

Screening tumors using this new approach could change the course of treatment for nearly 1 in 3 people with meningioma, the most common form of brain tumor diagnosed in 42,000 Americans each year.
Improving Prediction of Advanced Breast Cancer Among Women of Different Races and Ethnicities News

Improving Prediction of Advanced Breast Cancer Among Women of Different Races and Ethnicities

While regular screenings may decrease the chance of diagnosis of advanced breast cancer in some women and lead to a 20% reduction in breast cancer mortality, other women will be diagnosed with advanced breast cancer despite screening at regular intervals.
UCSF Health’s Eric Small, MD, Elected ASCO President for 2025-2026 Term News

UCSF Health’s Eric Small, MD, Elected ASCO President for 2025-2026 Term

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has elected Eric J. Small, MD, FASCO, to serve as its president for the term beginning in June 2025.
Cancer Immunotherapy Toxicity Evaluation (CITE) Program Document

Cancer Immunotherapy Toxicity Evaluation (CITE) Program

UCSF Health’s new Cancer Immunotherapy Toxicity Evaluation (CITE) Program is a valuable resource for both patient care and provider consults.
A Novel Approach Towards a Vaccine for Relapsing Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Q&A with Dr. Karin Gaensler News

A Novel Approach Towards a Vaccine for Relapsing Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Q&A with Dr. Karin Gaensler

There is a major clinical unmet need for effective and safe therapies to increase progression-free and overall survival in older individuals with leukemia whose prognosis is grim.
UCSF Health Cancer Services Earns National Accreditation from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons News

UCSF Health Cancer Services Earns National Accreditation from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons

The UCSF cancer program has been continuously accredited by the CoC since 1933, demonstrating its commitment to the best outcomes possible for its cancer patients.
Scientists Discover a Deadly Brain Cancer’s Hidden Weakness News

Scientists Discover a Deadly Brain Cancer’s Hidden Weakness

The difficult-to-treat brain cancer glioblastoma steals a person’s mental faculties as it spreads, yet the tumor’s insidious ability to infiltrate distant networks in the brain could also prove its undoing.
UCSF Surgical Oncologists Providing New Treatment Options for Patients with Metastatic Gastrointestinal Cancers News

UCSF Surgical Oncologists Providing New Treatment Options for Patients with Metastatic Gastrointestinal Cancers

UCSF Health’s surgical oncology team is a Bay Area leader in an innovative chemotherapy infusion pump used to treat patients with widely metastatic colorectal and bile duct cancers that have spread to the liver and are no longer considered operable.
Can Lymph Nodes Boost the Success of Cancer Immunotherapy? News

Can Lymph Nodes Boost the Success of Cancer Immunotherapy?

New data from a clinical trial show therapies may activate lymph nodes to produce tumor-tackling T cells.
First-line Pembrolizumab Plus Chemotherapy May Benefit Patients with Advanced Biliary Tract Cancers News

First-line Pembrolizumab Plus Chemotherapy May Benefit Patients with Advanced Biliary Tract Cancers

The addition of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) to gemcitabine and cisplatin improved overall survival in patients with untreated metastatic or unresectable biliary tract cancer, according to results from the phase III KEYNOTE-966 clinical trial.
Cardio-Oncology & Immunology: Specialized Cardiovascular Care for Cancer Patients Document

Cardio-Oncology & Immunology: Specialized Cardiovascular Care for Cancer Patients

Led by a multidisciplinary team of specialists and researchers, our program optimizes the cardiovascular health of cancer patients and cancer survivors.

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