California beauty queen, 35, dies nine years after colon cancer diagnosis - Doctors gave Andrea Andrade up to two years to ...

By targeting proteins used to splice genes, UC San Diego researchers have unlocked a new approach to treating triple-negative ...

Feb. 4 is World Cancer Day, which was established in 2000 with the aim of raising not only awareness but also prevention, ...

A new study by cell biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, suggests that an early first pregnancy may protect against breast cancer decades later by preventing age-related changes in ...

California is overhauling the way it collects information for its massive cancer database in the hope of improving how patients are treated for the disease. Pathologists at a dozen hospitals in the ...

Cases of prostate cancer are on the rise in California, according to new research. A study by UC San Francisco (UCSF) included nearly 388,000 men who had prostate cancer between 2004 and 2021. The ...

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As firefighters battled the catastrophic blazes in Los Angeles County in January, California’s U.S. senators, Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, signed onto legislation with a simple aim: Provide federal ...

Following a change in screening guidelines, the incidence went up across the state, even more than it has nationally. The incidence of advanced prostate cancer in California rose markedly in the ...