Nov 1-3 at the Nikko Hotel in San : RISE UP for Breast Cancer. New conference focusing on a bold reimagining of breast cancer prevention & treatment through cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas and out-of-the-box thinking. This interdisciplinary conference will bring together practitioners, scientists, advocates and more across women's health specialties and leverage what we know about breast cancer biology, treatment, and hormonal management to better approach breast cancer prevention and treatment. The conference will discuss the rise of precision treatment for breast cancer and how it can best inform precision prevention. One goal is to explore new ways to manage cycle control, birth control, postpartum weaning, IVF, and post-menopausal symptom management so that these interventions will reduce the risk and incidence of breast cancer. If you are involved in women’s health or breast cancer, you won’t want to miss this meeting! Hosted by University of California, San Francisco Harvard Medical School National Cancer Institute (NCI) University of California Office of the President's California Breast Cancer Research Program Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota REGISTER: https://ow.ly/51bX50TL3wc
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Hospitals and Health Care
San Francisco, California 1,626 followers
Combining basic science, clinical research, epidemiology/cancer control and patient care at UCSF.
About us
The UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center combines basic science, clinical research, epidemiology/cancer control and patient care from throughout the University of California, San Francisco system. UCSF's long tradition of excellence in cancer research includes the Nobel Prize-winning work of J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus, who discovered cancer-causing oncogenes. Their work opened new doors for exploring genetic abnormalities that cause cancer, and formed the basis for some of the most important cancer research happening today.
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- 201-500 employees
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- San Francisco, California
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- pancreas cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, childhood cancers, immunotherapy, precision medicine, multiple myeloma, hematopoietic malignancies, leukemia, CAR-T therapy, hereditary cancers, BRCA, and Neuroendocrine Tumors
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You are invited to join via Zoom this Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 from 12-1 pm PST for the last CAB2: ChatnChew of 2024: “Journey Health: Building a Social Care Delivery System" featuring Kyra Freeman, Operations Manager Journey Health. Key Discussion Points: -Understand the evolving landscape of Community Health Worker (CHW) reimbursement -Learn how your organization can connect with Journey Health to take advantage of new opportunities for CHW reimbursements CAB2: ChatnChew is a quarterly lecture series highlighting important cancer related information impacting diverse communities. This forum is open to the public and is hosted by the University of California, San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (HDFCCC) Office of Community Engagement (OCE). Free but register to receive Zoom link here: https://ow.ly/QymF50TLh7K
CAB2 ChatnChew: Quarterly Lecture from the Office of Community Engagement
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It was an honor to host this event. Looking forward to continued collaboration between NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration and University of California, San Francisco!
At NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration we explore deep space for the benefit of all. Under the Biden Cancer Moonshot initiative, NASA is working with researchers and agencies to help cut the nation’s cancer death rate by at least 50% in the next 25 years. A little over a week ago, as a part of the Patients and Caregiver taskforce, NASA Ames Research Center director Eugene Tu, retired NASA astronauts Ken Cockrell and Dr. Yvonne Cagle, Flight Surgeon Josef Schmid, and I met with pediatric and adult patients at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center to share how NASA is exploring the unknown and conducting Cancer research. The second half of the day, UCSF and UC researchers engaged in scientific roundtable sessions with NASA experts to discuss future collaborations. #GiantLeapsStartHere
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UCSF is a recognized world leader in developing innovative solutions to health care delivery problems. This culture of innovation has led to the development of a UCSF Fellowship to address the ongoing need for qualified Hematology and Oncology Advanced Practice Providers (APP). The University of California, San Francisco Cancer Services APP Fellowship Program is a 12-month formal postgraduate program that functions to bridge the gap in APP education and clinical practice experience. The Fellowship aims to provide APPs with subspecialty education and skills in comprehensive oncology care that are not routinely taught in graduate programs and often require extensive on-the-job training. Learn more at one of the upcoming education sessions: -December 10, 2024 from 4-5 pm -January 14, 2025 from 6-7 pm Application deadline is March 5, 2024. For more info: https://ow.ly/bFlE50THoBe
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InTanzania, breast cancer is the second most lethal cancer among women. “In Sub-Saharan Africa, like in other resource-constrained settings, there is a large shortage of pathologists as well as a shortage of the tools needed for cancer diagnostics,” said Katherine Van Loon, MD, MPH, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and director of the Global Cancer Program at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. “In many cases, women are lost to follow up due to the long turn-around-times for pathology results.” Recently, Van Loon and her collaborators at UCSF, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Tanzania published a paper in Lancet Oncology describing a new biopsy technique that can not only help women get diagnosed with breast cancer faster, but can also result in more precise breast cancer treatment. “This is a transformative technology because now practitioners can deliver breast cancer diagnostics and biomarker information at point-of-care,” said Van Loon. “Women can then quickly start the appropriate treatments, which are often lifesaving.” On #NationalMetastaticBreastCancerDay, we acknowledge the work of experts like Dr. Van Loon who are working to better prevent and treat breast cancer across the globe. https://ow.ly/IpKA50TK2z7
Breakthrough Low-Cost Technology Could Make Breast Cancer Diagnostics in Sub-Saharan Africa Faster, More Precise | UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences
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Last week, University of California, San Francisco had the distinct honor of hosting NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronauts, scientists, and center directors for a day of patient interactions and scientific brainstorming sessions in alignment with the White House #CancerMoonshot initiative. from UCSF News: Vanessa E. Wyche, director of Johnson Space Center, described the "privilege of leading human space flight for the nation." She applauded the work of UCSF and detailed how joint work benefits patients and caregivers, including NASA’s contributions to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), one of the most important innovations in medical technology. Her words quietly resonated with Sergio Canjura, a UCSF Health patient in San Francisco who has battled brain cancer and related conditions for many years. “I’ve had too many MRIs to count,” he said. “Hearing about them brought back the feeling, the fear, what it felt like to be in an MRI. It helped me make a direct connection. This has been such an amazing experience.” Read the full story, including a personal video welcome from astronauts aboard the International Space Station: https://ow.ly/zZNW50TJhKN
UCSF and NASA Explore Joint Ways to Benefit Cancer Patients | UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
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“I-SPY 2.2 is the latest in the I-SPY family of trials and introduces a very patient friendly and straightforward trial design. Ultimately, the goal is to find and develop biologically targeted treatments that help get each patient to the best possible outcome with the least toxicity. I firmly believe this trial is going to do just that.” Laura Esserman, MD, MBA, founder and principal investigator of I-SPY 2.2, director of the UCSF Health Breast Care Center and co-leader of the University of California, San Francisco Breast Oncology Program, on latest results from the UCSF-led I-SPY trial consortium which has worked to accelerate the development of new therapeutics for early-stage breast cancer. https://ow.ly/4FOz50TBQ8H
Precision Breast Cancer Trial Shows Improved Treatment by Tumor Subtype | UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
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“People want to know the why, and the answer is we don’t know,” Katherine Van Loon, MD, a GI oncologist at UCSF Health on the question of why there is a rise in younger adults getting cancer. Dr. Van Loon says it’s important to have a good sense of your “normal” to judge when something’s off. In the latest issue of SELF, Dr. Van Loon and other experts shared eight common signs of cancer to look out for. Read more: https://ow.ly/fXPH50TBAfV
There’s a ‘Real, Documented Rise’ in Cancer in Young People. Should You Be Worried?
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Getting otherwise healthy adults in for regular tests to detect cancer early is more complicated than it seems. More than 15 years ago, UCSF Health Family Community Medicine Professor Micheal Potter, MD, worked with San Francisco community health clinics to develop a model that paired colorectal cancer screening with something about half of us do annually anyway: get a flu shot. Today, community health centers in all 50 states have used Potter’s model, first developed at UCSF to save lives. https://ow.ly/cY9C50TzCNT
Why Your Flu Shot Might Come With a Colon Cancer Test | UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Scientists at University of California, San Francisco have discovered a way to get rid of pancreatic cancer in mice by putting them on a high fat, or ketogenic, diet and giving them cancer therapy. The cancer therapy blocks fat metabolism, which is the cancer’s only source of fuel for as long as the mice remain on the ketogenic diet, and the tumors stop growing. The team made the discovery, which appears August 14 in Nature while they were trying to figure out how the body manages to subsist on fat while fasting. “Our findings led us straight to the biology of one of the deadliest cancers, pancreatic cancer,” said Davide Ruggero, PhD, senior author of the paper. https://ow.ly/MyiI50TseHA
A Ketogenic Diet Could Improve the Response to Pancreatic Cancer Therapy | UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
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