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

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

Hematuria and Other Common Urinary Concerns: A Guide for PCPs Video

Hematuria and Other Common Urinary Concerns: A Guide for PCPs

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

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

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.

 UCSF Cancer Grand Round Series: 2024 Best of the Year Video

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.

Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis: A Common Cause of Spinal Pain Video

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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Can a Simple Blood Test Measure Fracture Recovery? News

Can a Simple Blood Test Measure Fracture Recovery?

A new UCSF-led study has identified a potential early blood-based indicator of long bone fracture healing, offering a powerful new avenue to track recovery and personalize care.

Sneaky Senescent Cells That Resist Cancer Treatment Can Provide Druggable Lung Cancer Target News

Sneaky Senescent Cells That Resist Cancer Treatment Can Provide Druggable Lung Cancer Target

Senescent fibroblasts are aging cells that no longer divide and protect against tumor development.

Novel Therapy Aims to Make Type 1 Diabetes Patients Insulin Free News

Novel Therapy Aims to Make Type 1 Diabetes Patients Insulin Free

UCSF providing laboratory-produced islet cell therapy as part of clinical trial for Type 1 diabetes patients.

Novel Immunotherapy Combination Destroys Colorectal Liver Metastases News

Novel Immunotherapy Combination Destroys Colorectal Liver Metastases

UCSF researchers disrupt tumor immune environment with LIGHT/anti-CTLA-4 therapy in preclinical models.

UCSF Lung Transplant Program Honored as Best in U.S. News

UCSF Lung Transplant Program Honored as Best in U.S.

UCSF Health’s Lung Transplant program has been awarded INTERLINK’s 2025 Chairman’s Award for Transplant Excellence as the top-performing lung transplant program in the nation.