When USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center member Ann Mohrbacher, MD, began her career in immunology, the idea that physicians one day could fight cancer using the body’s own ... Read More »
USC researchers to participate in Vice President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot exhibit at a White House event Researchers at the University of Southern California will demonstrate ... Read More »
Kevin Kelly, MD The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has named Kevin Kelly, MD, PhD, associate professor of clinical medicine in the Jane Anne Nohl Division of ... Read More »
Chris Haiman Building on its reputation as a major player in genome science, the Keck School of Medicine of USC has established the Center for Genetic ... Read More »
A sharp rise in testis cancer among Latinos took place between 2006 and 2012. (Photo/iStock) For the first time in Los Angeles County history, more Latino ... Read More »
Liver cancer rates increased by 33 percent among white men between 2005 and 2012. In the past four decades, liver cancer rates have more than doubled ... Read More »
The rate of breast cancer diagnoses in Asian-Americans has been on the rise over the last 40 years. Asian women living in Los Angeles County ... Read More »
Melanoma rates are highest among white women and men. More affluent adolescents and young adults tend to have higher rates of melanoma. The melanoma rate among ... Read More »
USC’s latest cancer report card charts trends using data from 1.3 million diagnosed cases in Los Angeles. Prostate and lung cancer are the No. 1 and 2 ... Read More »