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Breast Cancer: The Latest Evidence-Based Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment Options

In this informative webinar, UCSF breast surgeon Shoko Emily Abe, MD, reviews current evidence informing breast cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment

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Hematuria and Other Common Urinary Concerns: A Guide for PCPs

Blood in urine is common – and stressful for patients, who want an immediate diagnosis.

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High Risk for Breast Cancer: Methods and Schedules to Ensure Optimal Screening

Hematologist-oncologist Elham Vosoughi, MD, starts with an update on breast cancer stats, noting that incidence in the United States is increasing by 1% every year – with an even sharper rise for women under 50.

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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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Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis: A Common Cause of Spinal Pain

This practical presentation from physical and pain medicine specialist Peter I-Kung Wu, MD, PhD, MPH, takes a deep dive into diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH), a problem that particularly affects men over 50, bringing stiffness ...

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UCSF Study Finds a Better Way to Screen for Breast Cancer

A pioneering study has found that an individualized approach to breast cancer screening that assesses patients’ risk, rather than automatically giving annual mammograms, can lower the chance of more advanced cancers, while still safely ...

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UCSF Urology Clinicians Present Research Findings at SurgeWest

This year’s program featured innovative research and discussions by experts from the UCSF Department of Urology.

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How a Tumor Marker for Ovarian Cancer May Help Treat the Deadliest Bladder Cancers

Bladder tumors that have been excluded from clinical trials have a few things in common that could lead to new therapies.

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‘Every Time I Relapsed, There Would Be a New Course of Therapy’

He was told cancer would kill him in two to four years. Fourteen years later, he credits a series of medications and treatments funded by the National Institutes of Health.

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Improving Management and Treatment of Thyroid Cancer

UCSF’s Julie Ann Sosa, MD, co-led an international task force establishing new clinical guidelines for the management of differentiated thyroid cancer.