A retired San Francisco firefighter, who spent nearly two decades willingly putting his life on the line for others, now ...

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The contractor expects to complete Sutter Health’s new Advanced Cancer Center and Care Complex in Modesto by 2029.

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 ...

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 ...

Black Californians are five times more likely than others to die of prostate cancer. Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have cut screening costs.

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 ...

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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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 ...