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Congratulations, Dr. Roach!!
Dr. Mack Roach, MD, FASTRO, to be Presented ASTRO Gold Medal Award The UCSF Department of Radiation Oncology is pleased to announce that our own Dr. Mack Roach, MD, FASTRO, has been named a winner the ASTRO Gold Medal Award. In the official award announcement, ASTRO...
UCSF Department of Radiation Oncology – Annual Course for 2024
Come enjoy the visually delightful and relaxing waterfront environment of San Francisco, while obtaining a focused training and update on hypofractionation and its most common applications, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body radiation therapy...
UCSF Department of Radiation Oncology – Annual Course for 2023
This year’s course theme is patient-centered care. Despite ever-advancing technology, patients remain at the center of everything we do. This year’s course will feature discussions that focus on how novel technologies such as IMRT, SBRT, and other advanced technical –...
Project Pink Wheels Visits Rad Onc
On May 13, 2022, UCSF Radiation Oncology was visited by a very special team of firefighters from the Project Pink Wheels team of Contra Costa County at the request of a patient’s family member. Project Pink Wheels deployed their special pink fire truck to show support...
UCSF Radiation Oncology celebrates National Nurses Week
National Nurses Week celebrates the hard work, compassion, and diligence that nurses display on a daily basis. The American Nurses Association first celebrated this week-long event May 6-12, 1994, and it continues annually. Felix Militante writes “This past year was...
Rad Onc Rocks BASF 2022
Rad Onc Rocks BASF 2022 Radiation Oncology recently participated in the 2022 Bay Area Science Festival. BASF brings together STEM role models, families, youth and adults to experience the wonder of science. This year our dedicated team taught our guests how to...
Dr. David Raleigh Receives Grant to Explore How Fats Cause Cancer
David Raleigh, MD, PhD will embark on research supported by a Bold and Basic Grant from the UCSF Quantitative Biosciences Institute. He and Jeremy Reiter, MD, PhD will together explore how lipids in the primary cilium activate oncogenic Hedgehog signaling. See the...
Dr. Felix Feng is a Senior Researcher on Promising New Prostate Cancer Study
A test often used in breast cancer has been found to also identify which patients with aggressive prostate cancer will benefit from hormonal therapy. Dr. Felix Feng, one of the senior authors on an article published in JAMA Oncology, said “We’re hopeful that the...