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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our 2026-2027 Seminar Series in Basic and Translational Research kicks off this Friday, 10/2! Pavithra Viswanath, PhD @pavithraviswanath.bsky.social of @ucsfimaging.bsky.social presents "Developing an integrated metabolic therapy and imaging strategy for brain tumors." cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

An engaged turnout for today's @zsfgcare.bsky.social Cancer Research Symposium, which brought together @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social researchers, clinicians, and community‑focused leaders to explore how cancer care and research can become more equitable, innovative, and patient‑centered.

Terry Friedlander at UCSF-ZSFG Cancer Research Symposium

Healthy Equity Panel at UCSF-ZSFG Cancer Research Symposium

Participants at UCSF-ZSFG Cancer Research Symposium

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On #WorldCancerResearchDay we highlight recent news from our #UCSFGlobalCancerProgram: Strengthening Tracheostomy Care for Cancer Patients in Tanzania globalcancer.ucsf.edu/content/stre...

On September 16-17, 2026, clinicians from across East Africa gathered at Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH) in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, for a two-day training focused on strengthening tracheostomy care for cancer patients. A group photo of representatives from each participating institution with donated training models.

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On #WorldCancerResearchDay we highlight recent news from our #UCSFGlobalCancerProgram: Growing Pediatric Cancer Research Capacity in Vietnam globalcancer.ucsf.edu/content/grow...

Dr. Jain and the K Hospital team at the Patient Navigation Initiative Stakeholder Launch meeting.

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In the latest @cancerletter.com podcast, Dr. Frank McCormick @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social discusses the wider implications of the recent FDA approved the RAS inhibitor, daraxonrasib cancerletter.com/podcastc/202...

Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

October 11th join us for Taste for the Cure: A Taste of Science! 🍎 Learn from @ucsfhealth.bsky.social experts about breast cancer prevention, treatment, survivorship, and wellness through engaging talks, cooking demos, and more. Free to attend, register at: cancer.ucsf.edu/special-even...

Taste for the Cure: A Taste of Science 2026 at UCSF

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“If we can predict how a tumor will respond before starting down a therapeutic path, it would save time, money, and a lot of anxiety” Jennifer Rosenbluth, MD, PhD @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social on potential of organoids — tiny lab-made replicas of patients' own tumors cancer.ucsf.edu/news/2026/07...

Microscopic image showing breast cancer organoids.

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Webinar Sept 21st | @ucsfhealth.bsky.social lymphedema program updates and opportunities. Join us for an engaging webinar and Q&A with moderator and speaker John Rose, MD, MPH tiny.ucsf.edu/wif9p9

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Kudos Lindsey Draper, MD (w/ mentor Kole Roybal, PhD) at @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social on receiving a 2026 @damonrunyon.org Cancer Research Foundation Physician-Scientist Training Award. #UCSFProud

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Today, Wed 6/3 at 6pm - join the @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Bay Area Breast Cancer Forum for fresh #ASCO26 updates and key takeaways directly from @ucsfhealth.bsky.social Breast Oncology experts. Email BayAreaBreastCancerForum@ucsf.edu for zoom link cancer.ucsf.edu/forum | Free & open to all!

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Many of our @ucsfhealth.bsky.social experts are at #ASCO26 sharing research to further advance precision cancer medicine. Proud to see #UCSF represented in presentations spanning breast, prostate, GI and other cancers as we work to improve outcomes for patients. 💙🔬 cancer.ucsf.edu/news/2026/05...

Collage of UCSF clinician scientists presenting at ASCO 2026 Conference.

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This Friday, May 29th at 4pm our @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Cancer Center Seminar Series in Basic and Translational Research features Xiaoxiao (Vany) Sun, PhD, presenting "From Plasticity to Convergence: Targeting Cancer Persistence." cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars

This Friday, the latest @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Cancer Center Seminar features Xiaoxiao (Vany) Sun, PhD, Assistant Researcher in Pharmaceutical Chemistry presents "From Plasticity to Convergence: Targeting Cancer Persistence."

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Today at 4pm | Cancer Center Friday Seminar: Katherine Alexander, PhD, Asst Professor @cshlnews.bsky.social presents "Principles of gene regulation by nuclear speckles and implications for cancer" Open to @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social students, postdocs, faculty, and staff cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars

Today at 4pm | Cancer Center Friday Seminar with Katherine Alexander, PhD, Asst Professor @cshlnews.bsky.social presents "Principles of gene regulation by nuclear speckles and implications for cancer" Open to @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social students, postdocs, faculty, and staff https://cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Reminder: 4pm today @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Cancer Center Friday Seminar Series Katherine Fuh, MD, PhD @katherinefuh.bsky.social presents "Targeting the tumor microenvironment to enhance treatment response in ovarian cancer" cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars

Katherine Fuh, MD, PhD, John A. Kerner Chair in Gynecologic Oncology at UCSF @katherinefuh.bsky.social presents "Targeting the tumor microenvironment to enhance treatment response in ovarian cancer."

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

“We’ve seen patients getting younger and younger. Patients face this terrifying diagnosis at a time in life that collides w/ careers, relationships, raising families" @kvanloonmd.bsky.social on @ucsfhealth.bsky.social launch of a Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer Program cancer.ucsf.edu/news/2026/05...

Colorectal cancer patient Megan McNair speaks with oncologist Katherine Van Loon, MD (left), while receiving an infusion at UCSF.

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Today 5/1 at 4pm, our Cancer Center Friday Seminar Series @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social |William Y. Kim, MD @unclineberger.bsky.social Cancer Genetics Research Program presents “APOBEC Mutagenesis, Intron Retention, and other Adventures in GU Cancers” cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

"Don’t be afraid to ask difficult questions and to take that leap of faith, because even if your idea is only partly correct, there’s still important knowledge to be gained" @rushika-perera.bsky.social giving the 2026 Byers Award Lecture in Basic Science cancer.ucsf.edu/news/2026/04... #UCSFProud

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

"Innovation and creativity are things that are the joys of life. Trying to remind ourselves that we're not enclosed in a box and we don't have to just follow the footsteps that everybody laid out before us." Dr. Mary Feng @ucsfradonc.bsky.social www.urotoday.com/video-lectur...

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Tomorrow 4/24 at 4pm: @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Friday Seminar Series featuring Mythreye Karthikeyan, PhD @mythreye.bsky.social @uofalabama.bsky.social presenting “Breaking the Metastatic Cycle by Targeting Transcriptional Programs in Ovarian Cancer” cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars

Mythreye Karthikeyan, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, @uofalabama.bsky.social

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Today at 4pm our @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Friday Seminar Series features Aviv Regev, PhD, Head and Executive Vice President, Research and Early Development, @genentech.bsky.social presenting “From Cell Atlases to Medicines, with AI” cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars

Aviv Regev, PhD, Head and Executive Vice President, Research and Early Development, Genentech “From Cell Atlases to Medicines, with AI”

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Headed to #AACR26? Leading cancer researchers from @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social will present talks and posters on environmental and genetic determinants in cancer development, precision cancer treatment w/ radiotheranostics, overcoming drug resistance, and more. cancer.ucsf.edu/news/2026/04...

Collage of ucsf researchers at AACR 2026 conference

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This Friday, April 10th at 4pm PDT: Cancer Center Friday Seminar Series: Kristen Pauken, PhD @mdanderson.bsky.social presents "Thinking outside the tumor to maximize PD-1 immunotherapy response" Hosted by Adil Daud, MD @aporia64.bsky.social @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month. Our Office of Community Engagement has a handy list of resources on colon cancer: linktr.ee/UCSFCancerCe... #ColorectalCancerAwareness

UCSF Staff and partners with inflatable colon for colorectal cancer awareness

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The legacy of Dr. Felix Feng @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social lives on at the Feng Symposium on Prostate Cancer Revolutions. Dr. Jeremiah Wala @danafarber.bsky.social reported on his YIA-funded research @conquercancer.bsky.social "Abundance lymphocytic clusters in untreated high-grade prostate cancer"

Jeremiah Wala, MD, PhD @danafarber.bsky.social

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Excellent "Drugs on the Horizon" panel at Feng Symposium on Prostate Cancer Revolutions @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social w/ Drs. Joshua Lang @uwmadison.bsky.social Rana McKay @ucsandiego.bsky.social Himisha Beltran @danafarber.bsky.social Robert Dess @umich.edu Oliver Sartor @tulaneu.bsky.social

Drs. Joshua Lang @uwmadison.bsky.social
Rana McKay @ucsandiego.bsky.social
Himisha Beltran @danafarber.bsky.social
Robert Dess @umich.edu
Oliver Sartor @tulaneu.bsky.social

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Friday 2/20 at 4pm: Friday Cancer Center Seminar Series @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social | Andrea Ventura, MD, PhD, Cancer biologist @mskcancercenter.bsky.social presents "Engineering the Cancer Genome: from gene fusions to ecDNAs" Info: cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars

AndreaVentura, MD, PhD, Cancer biologist Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Today 2/13 at 4pm: Friday Cancer Center Seminar Series @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social | Charles Swanton, Deputy Clinic Director, @crick.ac.uk presents "Targeting Environmental and Ageing-Induced Myeloid Mayhem Preventing Lung Cancer and Age-Related Pathologies?" Info: cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars

Charles Swanton, MBPhD, FRCP, FAACR, FMedSci, FRS, Deputy Clinic Director, The Francis Crick Institute

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Tuesday, February 17th, our latest @ucsfhealth.bsky.social educational workshop for mutation carriers and family members: BRCA and Hereditary Cancer Workshop - Helping Your Family Get Tested: Next Steps After a Positive Test Result. Panel disucssion plus Q&A calendar.ucsf.edu/event/brca-a...

Tuesday, February 17th @ucsfhealth.bsky.social BRCA and Hereditary Cancer Workshop - Helping Your Family Get Tested: Next Steps After a Positive Test Result. Panel discussion, all are welcome

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Today 2/6 at 4pm: Friday Cancer Center Seminar Series @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social | Isaac Chan, MD, PhD from UT Southwestern Medical Center presents "Using innate barriers to treat metastatic breast cancer" Hosted by @andreigoga.bsky.social Info: cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Fri 1/30 at 4pm: @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Cancer Center Friday Seminar Series | Miller Huang, PhD @keckmedicineusc.bsky.social presents "Using human pluripotent stem cells to model tumorigenesis and identify therapeutic targets in pediatric neural tumors" cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Today 1/19 at 4pm: @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Cancer Center Friday Seminar Series: Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD @mskcancercenter.bsky.social presents "Understanding and Targeting Aberrant RNA Splicing in Cancer" cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars

Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD, Chair of Molecular Pharmacology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute; Attending Physician, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Today 1/9 at 4pm: UCSF Cancer Center Friday Seminar Series | Sean Morrison, PhD @seanjmorrison.bsky.social Founding Director, @cri-utsw.bsky.social presents "Immune regulation of melanoma metastasis" cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars Hosted by @rushika-perera.bsky.social @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Kudos to Ana I. Velázquez Mañana, MD, MSc, FASCO @ucsfhealth.bsky.social (seen here with @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social mentor and current @ascocancer.bsky.social President Dr. Eric Small) on being elected to the ASCO Nominating Committee. www.asco.org/about-asco/p...

Drs. Eric Small and Ana Velasquez Manana at ASCO

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

“We found that tanning bed users in their 30s and 40s had even more mutations than people in the general population who were in their 70s and 80s” @bishaltandukar.bsky.social @shainlab.bsky.social on latest study from @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social & Northwestern Univ cancer.ucsf.edu/news/2025/12...

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Today at 4pm: Cancer Center Friday Seminar | Ashley Kiemen, PhD, Johns Hopkins Inst for NanoBioTechnology "Integration of histology and multiplex imaging for targeted understanding of pancreatic cancer progression" cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars Host: @shainlab.bsky.social @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social

Ashley Kiemen, PhD @johnshopkinsbmb.bsky.social

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

At #UCSFSOTU, spotlight on Christine Miaskowski, an internationally recognized expert in pain & symptom management research at UCSF School of Nursing who was named a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/09...

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

“Brilliant minds blended with generous hearts” Chancellor Hawgood notes the significant contributions, and immeasurable loss, of Atul Butte and Bill Rutter to @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social and beyond #ucsfsotu

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Today at 4pm: Natalya Pavlova, PhD @huntsmancancer.bsky.social presents "Polyglutamine tracts as translational sensors of glutamine deficit" at our @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Cancer Center Friday Seminar Series in Basic and Translational Research calendar.ucsf.edu/event/cancer...

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

At #AORTIC2025, join Nov 4 at 7am in front of convention center for a beach walk to honor patients, caregivers, survivors, those we have lost, and clinicians who deliver care. Our @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social #UCSFGlobalCancer Program will walk in solidarity w/ our friends & colleagues in Tanzania

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

This weekend many of our @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Global Oncology Program faculty, fellows and trainees are planning to attend and present at the 2025 AORTIC Conference, being held in Tunisia. View a list of presentations: globalcancer.ucsf.edu/content/ucsf...

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Today is the day! The opening of our @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Art for Recovery program installation of @ucsfhealth.bsky.social patient art at the SFMOMA. Runs through Spring 2026! cancer.ucsf.edu/news/2025/10...

SFMOMA Art for Recovery installation of patient art

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Large Language Models in Population Oncology: A Contemporary Review on the Use of Large Language Models to Support Data Collection, Aggregation, and Analysis in Cancer Care and Research | @julianhong.bsky.social @ucsf-bchsi.bsky.social team via #JCOCCI ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Today at 6pm: Our Bay Area Breast Cancer Forum "Global Lobular Breast Cancer Awareness" Open to all. Lively discussion and Q&A after cancer.ucsf.edu/forum

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

In study led by Ajay Maker, MD, FACS, FSSO, @ucsfhealth.bsky.social researchers discovered that a novel combination of immunotherapies can reprogram the immune environment of colon cancer tumors that spread to the liver. cancer.ucsf.edu/news/2025/10...

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Friday, October 10th at 4pm | UCSF Cancer Center Seminar Series in Basic and Translational Research. Dolores Hambardzumyan, PhD, MBA from Perelman School of Medicine, UPenn presents "Myeloid heterogeneity and their role in high-grade gliomas" See full schedule: cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Excited to have been awarded a Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant by the NCI to provide resources for translational research into genomic, biochemical, and environmental drivers of cancers outcomes @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social cancer.ucsf.edu/news/2025/09... #CancerResearch

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

BRCA and Hereditary Cancer Workshop - I Tested Positive For Cancer Risk: What Does This Mean and What Can I Do? Tuesday, September 23, 2025 5:30pm to 7pm @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social calendar.ucsf.edu/event/brca-a...

BRCA and Hereditary Cancer Workshop at UCSF

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