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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.
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New Discovery Reveals Pathway to Modulate Scarring in Spinal Cord Injury
After a spinal cord injury, nearby cells quickly rush to action, forming protective scar tissue around the damaged area to stabilize and protect it
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UCSF at the Forefront of New Therapies, Giving Hope to Multiple Myeloma Patients
Over the past few decades, advances in the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM) have accelerated at a thrilling pace, with a wealth of new therapeutic options now available for patients with this serious disease.
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Chronic Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis: Part 2
Jeannette Lager, MD, describes a directed pelvic examination for chronic pelvic pain, including a general pelvic exam, Q-Tip test for vulvodynia, abdominal exam (including testing for Carnett’s Sign), an exam of the pelvic floor muscles and an assessment of myofascial trigger points.
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A Fresh Look at Lipids: Atherosclerosis Prevention in 2023
Cardiologist Clifton Watt, MD, presents an update on lipoproteins, including how genetic factors can impact test results and whether pre-measurement fasting actually matters.
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Javid Moslehi, MD, Named Chief of the New UCSF Cardio-Oncology & Immunology Program
Javid Moslehi, MD, has been named section chief of the new Cardio-Oncology & Immunology Program at UC San Francisco, which brings together cardiologists, oncologists, immunologists and researchers to promote the cardiovascular health of patients during cancer treatment and survivorship.
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New Guidance for Ethical Urinary Incontinence Care for Older Adults
An International Continence Society working group led by UCSF urologist Anne M. Suskind, MD, MS, FACS, FPM-RS, recently published a white paper that provides an ethical framework for caring for older adults with urinary incontinence.
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UCSF Cancer Grand Round Series: 2024 Best of the Year
UCSF Health and John Muir Health specialists in treatments for numerous cancers – including breast, lung, bladder and colon cancer – unpack last year's influential trials, several of which established new standards of care for specific patient populations.
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UCSF Lung Transplant Patient No. 1,000 Looks Ahead to More of the Good Life
Hospital Innovations Boost 3-Year Survival From 50% in 2001 to 90% 20 Years Later
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Pass the Smell Test: How to Assess Olfactory Loss Linked to COVID and Other Conditions
Otolaryngologist Patricia A. Loftus, MD, discusses what’s known about smell loss in COVID patients as well as its general prevalence in our aging population.
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Bladder Cancer Home Test Reduced Need for Cystoscopy During COVID-19
A study led by UCSF urologic cancer surgeons Sima Porten, MD, MPH, and Maxwell Meng, MD, found that use of a home urine test during the COVID-19 pandemic decreased the frequency of surveillance cystoscopy for patients with a history of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC).
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Getting Ahead of Anal Cancer: Assess Risk and Screen Appropriately to Prevent Advanced Disease
“Don’t assume it's just a hemorrhoid,” says infectious disease specialist Cristina Brickman, MD, MSCE, in her talk on protecting high-risk patients from anal and perianal cancer
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Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
Expert care to improve both survival and quality of life
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Pregnancy Complications and Stroke Risk
Vineeta Singh, MD discusses the pregnancy- and post-pregnancy-associated risk factors for stroke and the management of these conditions.
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Breast Cancer Risk Calculator Can Assess Risk of Advanced Breast Cancer
Upcoming Conference to Focus on Breast Density and Prediction of Advanced and Interval Breast Cancer Risk
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Liver Transplant Program and Referral Information
With more than 13,000 people in the United States with end-stage liver disease awaiting a liver transplant,UCSF has made liver transplantation services a high priority.
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Multiple Sclerosis and Other Inflammatory Disorders of the Central Nervous System
Learn the latest thinking on MS and the genetic and environmental causes, preventing nerve loss in the brain and elsewhere, the role of vitamin D and UV exposure, breakthroughs on the horizon, and other inflammatory diseases like sarcoidosis.
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Focused Cancer Updates: Neoadjuvant Therapy for Breast Cancer and Managing Immunotherapy Toxicity
An expert panel delivers news to inform therapy and monitoring decisions, including a look at how the I-SPY 2 trial is accelerating evaluation of promising agents in high-risk breast cancer.
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UCSF Internal Medicine Specialist Celebrated for Diabetes Epidemiology Research
Alka M. Kanaya, MD, UC San Francisco primary care physician and researcher, has been honored with the 2023 Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Epidemiology from the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
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UCSF Offers Growing Options for Focal Therapy in Prostate Cancer
In its commitment to tailoring prostate cancer treatment to the needs of each patient, UC San Francisco’s Department of Urology uses focal therapy as an important option for men with clinically significant cancers that are located in one region of the prostate.
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Minimally Invasive TLIF; Techniques and Outcomes
Aaron J. Clark, MD, PhD, describes the minimally invasive approaches of transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) and its advantages over open TLIF surgery including the benefits for the obese and elderly, fewer complications and less pain.
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Constipation Frustration: How to Determine Therapy for a Diverse Diagnosis
A common disorder with a heavy socioeconomic burden, constipation has numerous causes and is described differently by different patients.
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Healthcare Reform Spine Surgery: Decision Making Stakeholders Perspectives and Moral Hazard
In this lecture Sigurd Berven, MD, discusses the decision making in complex spinal surgery and how to make informed decisions for the patients, to help them receive the outcomes they are expecting.
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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.
