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May 08, 2013

Patient Care
Research
Cancer

New Prostate Cancer Test Improves Risk Assessment

Tool tested by UCSF helps identify those best suited for Active Surveillance...

Apr 17, 2013

Patient Care
Research
Cancer

UCSF Urology's CAPRA-S Score Validated

The University of California, San Francisco, Cancer of the Prostate Risk Assessment Postsurgical (CAPRA-S) score is a new tool updating the widely used CAPRA score with information gained from radical prostatectomy.

Mar 05, 2013

Patient Care
Education
Cancer

New UCSF Marketing Campaign Features Active Surveillance

Urology Department Chair Peter Carroll, MD, MPH and prostate cancer survivor John Shoemaker are featured in UCSF Medical Center's latest multimedia advertising campaign …

Feb 28, 2013

Patient Care
Research
Cancer
Urologic Subspecialties

Precision Medicine Promises Optimal Care

UCSF is in the forefront of a movement that seeks to change how cancer and many other diseases are treated in the years to come.....

Feb 12, 2013

Research
Cancer

The Role of Unfolded Protein Response Pathway (UPR) in Cancer

University of Pennsylvania scientists collaborated with UCSF Urology's associate professor, Davide Ruggero, PhD on a paper recently published in the distinguished Journal of Clinical Investigation on the role of UPR in tumor cells...

Jan 23, 2013

Patient Care
Research
Cancer

How Prostate Cancer Therapies Compare by Cost and Effectiveness

The most comprehensive retrospective study ever conducted comparing major types of prostate cancer treatments was reported by a team of researchers at UCSF Urology.

Jan 07, 2013

Patient Care
Cancer

President Obama Nominates Mack Roach to National Cancer Advisory Board

President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate UCSF's Mack Roach III, MD, FACR, an internationally recognized expert on using radiation to treat and manage prostate cancer, to the National Cancer Advisory Board.

Dec 08, 2012

Research
Cancer

Bladder Cancer and Small Activating RNA Molecules (saRNAs)

UCSF urologist Long-Chen Li, MD, and his team have published findings from a study in mice showing that delivering small activating RNA molecules (saRNAs) directly into the bladder can activate tumor suppressor genes and inhibit tumor growth...