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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 ...

Keeping a Luster in the Golden Years: What Geriatricians Bring to Aging Patients Video

Keeping a Luster in the Golden Years: What Geriatricians Bring to Aging Patients

The complex and broad-ranging needs of older adults can be difficult to meet in the primary care setting – or by specialists seeing them for a single disorder

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM): A Fresh Look at Health Impacts, Screening Tests & Management Tools Video

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM): A Fresh Look at Health Impacts, Screening Tests & Management Tools

Having experienced GDM herself while pregnant, perinatologist Jennie Duffy, MD, understands the challenges for both patients and doctors in the quest for better glycemic control.

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UCSF Stroke Clinic Document

UCSF Stroke Clinic

The stroke clinic provides expert consultations and outpatient care to patients who are at risk of a stroke or have had a stroke due to neurovascular conditions.

UCSF Among First in U.S. to Receive New Pulmonary Care Designation News

UCSF Among First in U.S. to Receive New Pulmonary Care Designation

UCSF has been designated a Bronchiectasis and NTM Care Center, based on the depth and breadth of its services.

AI in Cancer Care, Targeted Therapies Among Cancer Conference Talks News

AI in Cancer Care, Targeted Therapies Among Cancer Conference Talks

Leading cancer researchers from UC San Francisco presented talks about advances in targeted therapies, cancer genomics, using AI to personalize cancer treatment, improving diagnosis of hard-to-treat cancers and other cancer research topics ...

New Study Looks at Why Cancer Treatments Cause Heart Damage News

New Study Looks at Why Cancer Treatments Cause Heart Damage

Teams from UC San Francisco and Stanford University will study why certain cancer treatments cause cardiotoxicities for some patients but not for others.

Predictive Biomarkers, Tailored Therapy Among Conference Presentations News

Predictive Biomarkers, Tailored Therapy Among Conference Presentations

UCSF’s Eric J. Small, MD, becomes ASCO president at ASCO 2025 meeting