Cancer Research
California Prop 29 Tobacco Tax Narrowly Loses In Final Vote Tally
A closely-watched effort to impose a new tax on tobacco to pay for cancer research in the nation’s most populous state has failed by six tenths of a percentage point.
Poll Shows California Voters Support Tobacco Tax, Term Limits Measures
California voters appear ready to approve two statewide initiatives on the June 5 ballot, Proposition 28 to shorten legislator term limits and Proposition 29 to increase cigarette taxes, according to a new poll.
UCSF Doctors Lose Their Locks To Help Fund Cancer Research
It was a close shave Wednesday as several doctors took part in a fundraiser. At a special gathering, several doctors from the University of California at San Francisco’s Benioff Children’s Hospital shaved their heads to raise more than $22,000 for children’s cancer research.
SF Cancer Survivor Launches Web-Based Treatment App
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In the late 1990s, Marty Tenenbaum was a hotshot e-commerce entrepreneur riding high on the dot-com boom when he noticed a lump on his body. He learned he had melanoma, the […]
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