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He became director of Oncology Urology Oncology Research Center at the UCSF/VAMC in 1991. After 34 years of service at the UCSF, he retired as a Professor Emeritus and Director of Urology Research Center. Also retired as a Senior Research Career Scientist from the Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington DC. [5] [6] [7]
UCSF at Mission Bay serves patients with orthopedic, gynecologic, breast, lung, melanoma, head and neck, gastrointestinal, and genitourinary cancers. The Bakar Cancer Hospital opened on the Mission Bay campus in 2015 with 70 adult beds, and groundbreaking for a new Precision Cancer Medicine Building at the Mission Bay campus began in 2017, with ...
UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights is located on the main campus of UCSF and includes the 600-bed teaching hospital of the same name along with the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, extensive research labs, the main branch of the UCSF Library, and is home to the UCSF School of Medicine, UCSF School of Nursing, UCSF School of Dentistry, and UCSF School of Pharmacy.
Small is the Co-Leader of the UCSF Prostate Cancer Program and the Deputy Director and Chief Scientific Officer at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. He was elected President of ASCO on December 13, 2024. He will take on the role of President-Elect after the ASCO Annual Business Meeting in Chicago on June 3, 2025. [1] [2] [6] [7]
Cancer of the stomach, also called gastric cancer, is the fourth-most-common type of cancer and the second-highest cause of cancer death globally. [2] Eastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia) is a high-risk area for gastric cancer, and North America, Australia, New Zealand and western and northern Africa are areas with low risk. [5]
Prasad is currently a full professor of hematology-oncology at UCSF. [4] He is a cancer drug and health policy researcher. He also studies the financial conflicts in drug approvals. [5] In 2015, Prasad published the book, Ending Medical Reversal, with physician and academic Adam Cifu. [6]
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are the most common mesenchymal neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract. GISTs arise in the smooth muscle pacemaker interstitial cell of Cajal, or similar cells. [2] They are defined as tumors whose behavior is driven by mutations in the KIT gene (85%), [2] PDGFRA gene (10%), [2] or BRAF kinase (rare).
Laura Esserman is a surgeon and breast cancer oncology specialist. She is the director of the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. [1] She leads the I-SPY trials, Athena Breast Health Network and the WISDOM study.