After a Mastectomy at 83, UF Health Patient is “Healing Like A Teenager”

Anne Adams was a healthy 83-year-old woman, a retired acupuncturist living in St. Augustine with her husband. She had never had any concerns about breast…

Carolyn M. Tucker, Ph.D., receives President’s Lifetime Achievement Award

September 11, 2024

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In recognition of her work to build healthier communities and providing hundreds with power over cancer, Carolyn M. Tucker, Ph.D., has…

Growing Awareness Between Alcohol and Cancer Risk

While it’s common knowledge that smoking cigarettes increases cancer risk, somehow alcohol — also known to correlate with higher cancer risk — has escaped the…

UF Health Cancer Center to launch mobile mammography unit and expand access to care

December 4, 2023

For many individuals living in the rural 23-county area of North Central Florida served by the UF Health Cancer Center, access to mammography services for…

Giving Tuesday - Why I Give

As you consider ways to support our community, we hope that UF Health St. Johns Foundation comes to mind. Your Giving Tuesday gift will support the patients of…

Courtney and the Cancer She Never Planned For

Courtney has always been a planner, even as a child. Growing up in Gainesville, she produced pretend weddings for her sister and neighborhood friends, ensuring…

Breast Cancer Screening 101: Everything You Need to Know About Early Detection

The smell of pumpkin spice is in the air, and there are hints of cooler weather ahead. While we don’t get the treat of seeing the leaves change colors in…

NIH ‘High Risk-High Reward’ grants go to two UF Health researchers exploring strategies to fight cancer and other diseases

October 3, 2023

Two University of Florida Health researchers have received prestigious High Risk-High Reward grants from the National Institutes of Health’s Common Fund for…

UF researchers’ genetic detection discovery has implications for medical diagnostic testing

September 21, 2023

University of Florida researchers have found a new use for “genetic scissors” to detect RNA, a discovery that could lead to faster, more accurate and less…

UF researchers create powerful cancer-targeting compound

August 11, 2023

A team of University of Florida medicinal chemists and cancer biologists has created a chemical compound that powerfully and selectively helped cells dispose…