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

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 ...

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

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 ...

FIRST CLINICAL TRIAL OF A NEW CANCER DRUG FOR CATS. AND IT COULD HAVE APPLICATIONS FOR HUMANS. YEAH, IT’S INTERESTING. SCIENTISTS AT UC DAVIS AND UC SAN FRANCISCO HAVE TREATED CATS WITH SQUAMOUS CELL ...

Knowable Magazine reports on advancements in pancreatic cancer treatment, including new drugs, vaccines, and early diagnostic technologies promising improved survival rates.

The work, recently published in Nature Communications, addresses a long-standing puzzle in breast cancer biology. Scientists have known that while aging increases breast cancer risk, having a ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Cancer and water, two words that no one wants to hear in one sentence. "One person in a population of a million will develop cancer in their lifetime," said Environmental ...

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