Biography
Dr. Robin Kate Kelley is a gastrointestinal oncologist who specializes in cancers arising from the liver, including hepatocellular carcinoma, bile duct cancer (cholangiocarcinoma), and gallbladder carcinoma. Her research interests include developing clinical trials of new treatments and combination therapies for these cancers, including immunotherapy approaches as well as translational research to identify molecular and genetic biomarkers of response. Dr. Kelley graduated from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and completed a residency at UCLA, where she was chief resident in internal medicine. She then completed a fellowship in hematology and oncology at UCSF.
Dr. Kelley received an American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium Merit Award in 2009, an ASCO Young Investigator Award in 2010, and the National Cancer Institute Cancer Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Award in 2014. She has authored numerous publications about treatments for advanced liver and bile duct cancers. She is involved in many organizations dedicated to improving the outcomes for patients with primary liver cancers, including National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guideline panel for Liver Cancers, the National Cancer Institute Hepatobiliary Cancer Task Force, the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation Scientific and Medical Advisory Board, and the International Liver Cancer Association Education Committee.
Dr. Kelley received an American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium Merit Award in 2009, an ASCO Young Investigator Award in 2010, and the National Cancer Institute Cancer Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Award in 2014. She has authored numerous publications about treatments for advanced liver and bile duct cancers. She is involved in many organizations dedicated to improving the outcomes for patients with primary liver cancers, including National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guideline panel for Liver Cancers, the National Cancer Institute Hepatobiliary Cancer Task Force, the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation Scientific and Medical Advisory Board, and the International Liver Cancer Association Education Committee.
Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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University of California San Francisco | Fellowship | Hematology/Oncology | 10/2009 |
University of California Los Angeles | Chief Residency | Internal Medicine | 06/2006 |
University of California Los Angeles | Residency | Internal Medicine | 05/2005 |
University of California Los Angeles | M.D. | School of Medicine | 05/2002 |
Harvard College | A.B. | Biochemical Sciences | 05/1997 |
Board Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine: Medical Oncology - Subspecialty
Clinical Expertise
Colon Cancer
Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Liver Cancer)
Liver Metastases
Pancreatic Cancer
Rectal Cancer
Stomach Cancer
Program Affiliations
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Research Interests
Anal Cancer
Colorectal Cancer
Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Liver Cancer)
Liver Metastases
Rectal Cancer
Molecular Markers in Solid Tumors
Publications
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 134
- Changes in alpha-fetoprotein across the systemic therapy continuum in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma-a real-world, multicenter study.| | PubMed
- Cataracts Associated With Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor Inhibitors for Cholangiocarcinoma.| | PubMed
- Emerging Therapies for the Management of Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-/ERBB2-Altered Advanced Biliary Tract Cancers.| | PubMed
- Outcomes in the Asian subgroup of the phase III randomised HIMALAYA study of tremelimumab plus durvalumab in unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Generation of a biliary tract cancer cell line atlas reveals molecular subtypes and therapeutic targets.| | PubMed
- Human Hepatocytes Can Give Rise to Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinomas.| | PubMed
- COMPANION-002 A clinical trial of investigational drug CTX-009 plus paclitaxel vs paclitaxel in second line advanced BTC.| | PubMed
- 68Ga-FAP-2286 PET of Solid Tumors: Biodistribution, Dosimetry, and Comparison with 18F-FDG.| | PubMed
- Synthetic Lethality Beyond BRCA: A Phase I Study of Rucaparib and Irinotecan in Metastatic Solid Tumors With Homologous Recombination-Deficiency Mutations Beyond BRCA1/2.| | PubMed
- Patient-Reported Outcomes From the Phase III HIMALAYA Study of Tremelimumab Plus Durvalumab in Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Evidence and choice: The BCLC vision for tailoring clinical decision-making.| | PubMed
- Genome-wide association study identifies high-impact susceptibility loci for HCC in North America.| | PubMed
- Cabozantinib plus atezolizumab versus sorafenib for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (COSMIC-312): final results of a randomised phase 3 study.| | PubMed
- Author Correction: Hepatocellular carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Durvalumab Plus Tremelimumab for First-Line Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for Child-Pugh Class B Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.| | PubMed
- Plain language summary of the HIMALAYA study: tremelimumab and durvalumab for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer).| | PubMed
- Modeling of Proliferating CD4 and CD8 T-Cell Changes to Tremelimumab Exposure in Patients with Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Molecular profiling and treatment pattern differences between intrahepatic and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.| | PubMed
- Tumor biology and immune infiltration define primary liver cancer subsets linked to overall survival after immunotherapy.| | PubMed
- Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid-Bound α-Fetoprotein Promotes Immune Suppression by Altering Human Dendritic Cell Metabolism.| | PubMed
- Pembrolizumab in combination with gemcitabine and cisplatin compared with gemcitabine and cisplatin alone for patients with advanced biliary tract cancer (KEYNOTE-966): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial.| | PubMed
- Exposure-Response Analyses of Tremelimumab Monotherapy or in Combination with Durvalumab in Patients with Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Immunology and immunotherapy of cholangiocarcinoma.| | PubMed
- Futibatinib for FGFR2-Rearranged Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma.| | PubMed
- Predictive and Prognostic Potential of Liver Function Assessment in Patients with Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Systematic Literature Review.| | PubMed
- The evolving role of combination systemic therapies in hepatocellular carcinoma.| | PubMed
- What is the gender representation in authorship in later phase systemic clinical trials in biliary tract cancer (BTC)? - a retrospective review of the published literature.| | PubMed
- The Evolving Role of Combination Systemic Therapies in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Circulating monocytes associated with anti-PD-1 resistance in human biliary cancer induce T cell paralysis.| | PubMed
- Alpha-Fetoprotein as a Potential Surrogate Biomarker for Atezolizumab + Bevacizumab Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Cabozantinib plus atezolizumab versus sorafenib for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (COSMIC-312): a multicentre, open-label, randomised, phase 3 trial.| | PubMed
- Tremelimumab plus Durvalumab in Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Molecular pathogenesis and systemic therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Quality of life assessment of cabozantinib in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma in the CELESTIAL trial.| | PubMed
- Safety and efficacy of cabozantinib for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma who advanced to Child-Pugh B liver function at study week 8: a retrospective analysis of the CELESTIAL randomised controlled trial.| | PubMed
- Biliary cancer brain metastases: a multi-institution case series with case reports.| | PubMed
- Validation and Characterization of FGFR2 Rearrangements in Cholangiocarcinoma with Comprehensive Genomic Profiling.| | PubMed
- Characteristics and Growth Rate of Lung Metastases in Patients With Primary Gastrointestinal Malignancies and Lung-dominant Metastatic Disease: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis.| | PubMed
- Discovering dominant tumor immune archetypes in a pan-cancer census.| | PubMed
- Nivolumab versus sorafenib in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (CheckMate 459): a randomised, multicentre, open-label, phase 3 trial.| | PubMed
- Outcomes Based on Plasma Biomarkers for the Phase 3 CELESTIAL Trial of Cabozantinib versus Placebo in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma.| | PubMed
- BCLC strategy for prognosis prediction and treatment recommendation: The 2022 update.| | PubMed
- Efficacy and safety of cabozantinib for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma based on albumin-bilirubin grade.| | PubMed
- Futibatinib, an Irreversible FGFR1-4 Inhibitor, in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors Harboring FGF/FGFR Aberrations: A Phase I Dose-Expansion Study.| | PubMed
- Phase II Trial of the Combination of Temsirolimus and Sorafenib in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Tumor Mutation Profiling.| | PubMed
- Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) clinical practice guideline on immunotherapy for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Infigratinib (BGJ398) in previously treated patients with advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with FGFR2 fusions or rearrangements: mature results from a multicentre, open-label, single-arm, phase 2 study.| | PubMed
- Safety, Efficacy, and Pharmacodynamics of Tremelimumab Plus Durvalumab for Patients With Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Randomized Expansion of a Phase I/II Study.| | PubMed
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma - Origins and Outcomes.| | PubMed
- Cabozantinib: An evolving therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Phase 1b study of galunisertib and ramucirumab in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Hepatocellular carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Second-line cabozantinib after sorafenib treatment for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: a subgroup analysis of the phase 3 CELESTIAL trial.| | PubMed
- Serum Alpha-fetoprotein Levels and Clinical Outcomes in the Phase III CELESTIAL Study of Cabozantinib versus Placebo in Patients with Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Phase Ib Study of Enzalutamide with or Without Sorafenib in Patients with Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Cabozantinib in combination with atezolizumab versus sorafenib in treatment-naive advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: COSMIC-312 Phase III study design.| | PubMed
- Comparative Efficacy of Cabozantinib and Regorafenib for Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Atezolizumab plus Bevacizumab - A Landmark in Liver Cancer.| | PubMed
- Ivosidenib in IDH1-mutant, chemotherapy-refractory cholangiocarcinoma (ClarIDHy): a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 study.| | PubMed
- Efficacy and safety of pembrolizumab for the treatment of advanced biliary cancer: Results from the KEYNOTE-158 and KEYNOTE-028 studies.| | PubMed
- Checkpoint Inhibitors for the Treatment of Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Biomarkers and overall survival in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma treated with TGF-βRI inhibitor galunisertib.| | PubMed
- Insights From a Temporal Assessment of Increases in US Private Payer Coverage of Tumor Sequencing From 2015 to 2019.| | PubMed
- Systemic therapies for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.| | PubMed
- Harnessing big 'omics' data and AI for drug discovery in hepatocellular carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Vitamin D Levels in Patients with Colorectal Cancer Before and After Treatment Initiation.| | PubMed
- Assessment of Treatment With Sorafenib Plus Doxorubicin vs Sorafenib Alone in Patients With Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Phase 3 CALGB 80802 Randomized Clinical Trial.| | PubMed
- Immunotherapy in hepatocellular carcinoma: the complex interface between inflammation, fibrosis, and the immune response.| | PubMed
- Second-line chemotherapy in advanced biliary cancers: A retrospective, multicenter analysis of outcomes.| | PubMed
- Frequency and prognostic significance of isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 mutations in cholangiocarcinoma: a systematic literature review.| | PubMed
- Molecular Profiling of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using Circulating Cell-Free DNA.| | PubMed
- Novel transforming growth factor beta receptor I kinase inhibitor galunisertib (LY2157299) in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Nivolumab in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma and Child-Pugh class B cirrhosis: Safety and clinical outcomes in a retrospective case series.| | PubMed
- TAS-120 Overcomes Resistance to ATP-Competitive FGFR Inhibitors in Patients with FGFR2 Fusion-Positive Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma.| | PubMed
- Genomic profiling of combined hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma reveals similar genetics to hepatocellular carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Heterogeneous Uptake of 18F-FDG and 68Ga-PSMA-11 in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.| | PubMed
- An Open-Label, Multicenter, Phase I, Dose Escalation Study with Phase II Expansion Cohort to Determine the Safety, Pharmacokinetics, and Preliminary Antitumor Activity of Intravenous TKM-080301 in Subjects with Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Emerging Role for Systemic Therapy in Earlier Stages of HCC.| | PubMed
- Cholangiocarcinoma With FGFR Genetic Aberrations: A Unique Clinical Phenotype.| | PubMed
- Cabozantinib in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Cabozantinib in Patients with Advanced and Progressing Hepatocellular Carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Hybrid Capture-Based Tumor Sequencing and Copy Number Analysis to Confirm Origin of Metachronous Metastases in BRCA1-Mutant Cholangiocarcinoma Harboring a Novel YWHAZ-BRAF Fusion.| | PubMed
- Phase II Study of BGJ398 in Patients With FGFR-Altered Advanced Cholangiocarcinoma.| | PubMed
- Cholangiocarcinoma - evolving concepts and therapeutic strategies.| | PubMed
- Differential Toxicity in Patients with and without DNA Repair Mutations: Phase I Study of Carboplatin and Talazoparib in Advanced Solid Tumors.| | PubMed
- Liver transplantation recipients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis have lower risk hepatocellular carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Overall Survival and Clinical Characteristics of BRCA-Associated Cholangiocarcinoma: A Multicenter Retrospective Study.| | PubMed
- NCCN Guidelines Insights: Hepatobiliary Cancers, Version 1.2017.| | PubMed
- Cabozantinib in hepatocellular carcinoma: results of a phase 2 placebo-controlled randomized discontinuation study.| | PubMed
- Payer Coverage for Hereditary Cancer Panels: Barriers, Opportunities, and Implications for the Precision Medicine Initiative.| | PubMed
- Imaging Hepatocellular Carcinoma With 68Ga-Citrate PET: First Clinical Experience.| | PubMed
- Advances in cholangiocarcinoma research: report from the third Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation Annual Conference.| | PubMed
- Radioembolization with 90Y glass microspheres for the treatment of unresectable metastatic liver disease from chemotherapy-refractory gastrointestinal cancers: final report of a prospective pilot study.| | PubMed
- Biliary cancer: Utility of next-generation sequencing for clinical management.| | PubMed
- A phase II study of axitinib in advanced neuroendocrine tumors.| | PubMed
- A phase 1b study of the Akt-inhibitor MK-2206 in combination with weekly paclitaxel and trastuzumab in patients with advanced HER2-amplified solid tumor malignancies.| | PubMed
- A Phase I First-in-Human Study of Nesvacumab (REGN910), a Fully Human Anti-Angiopoietin-2 (Ang2) Monoclonal Antibody, in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors.| | PubMed
- Adjuvant sorafenib for liver cancer: wrong stage, wrong dose.| | PubMed
- A Multicenter, Open-Label Phase II Clinical Trial of Combined MEK plus EGFR Inhibition for Chemotherapy-Refractory Advanced Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma.| | PubMed
- A 46-Year-Old Asian Woman With Liver Mass.| | PubMed
- Biliary Tract Cancers: Finding Better Ways to Lump and Split.| | PubMed
- A phase I dose-escalation study to assess safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and preliminary efficacy of the dual mTORC1/mTORC2 kinase inhibitor CC-223 in patients with advanced solid tumors or multiple myeloma.| | PubMed
- Cell-Free DNA Next-Generation Sequencing in Pancreatobiliary Carcinomas.| | PubMed
- Cases of spontaneous tumor regression in hepatobiliary cancers: implications for immunotherapy?| | PubMed
- Circulating tumor cells in hepatocellular carcinoma: a pilot study of detection, enumeration, and next-generation sequencing in cases and controls.| | PubMed
- Challenges of coverage policy development for next-generation tumor sequencing panels: experts and payers weigh in.| | PubMed
- A case series of patients with HER2-overexpressed primary metastatic gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma.| | PubMed
- Potent antitumor activity of cabozantinib, a c-MET and VEGFR2 inhibitor, in a colorectal cancer patient-derived tumor explant model.| | PubMed
- Hepatobiliary cancers, version 2.2014.| | PubMed
- Genomic sequencing: assessing the health care system, policy, and big-data implications.| | PubMed
- 90Y glass microspheres for the treatment of unresectable metastatic liver disease from chemotherapy-refractory gastrointestinal cancers: a pilot study.| | PubMed
- A review of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) staging systems.| | PubMed
- A phase 1 trial of imatinib, bevacizumab, and metronomic cyclophosphamide in advanced colorectal cancer.| | PubMed
- Brivanib and FOLFOX in hepatocellular carcinoma: finding the common themes among negative trials.| | PubMed
- Temsirolimus combined with sorafenib in hepatocellular carcinoma: a phase I dose-finding trial with pharmacokinetic and biomarker correlates.| | PubMed
- Clinicopathologic characteristics and survival outcomes of patients with fibrolamellar carcinoma: data from the fibrolamellar carcinoma consortium.| | PubMed
- Novel therapeutics in hepatocellular carcinoma: how can we make progress?| | PubMed
- Optimizing the administration of fixed-dose rate gemcitabine plus capecitabine using an alternating-week schedule: a dose finding and early efficacy study in advanced pancreatic and biliary carcinomas.| | PubMed
- Can we cure cholangiocarcinoma with neoadjuvant chemoradiation and liver transplantation? Time for a multicenter trial.| | PubMed
- Predictive biomarkers in advance of a companion drug: ahead of their time?| | PubMed
- Multidisciplinary management of hepatocellular carcinoma.| | PubMed
- Biomarker use in colorectal cancer therapy.| | PubMed
- NCCN Task Force report: Evaluating the clinical utility of tumor markers in oncology.| | PubMed
- Salvage liver transplantation for recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma after radiofrequency ablation: a new strategy?| | PubMed
- Prognostic and predictive markers in stage II colon cancer: is there a role for gene expression profiling?| | PubMed
- "And what other medications are you taking?".| | PubMed
- Personalized medicine and oncology practice guidelines: a case study of contemporary biomarkers in colorectal cancer.| | PubMed
- KRAS mutational analysis for colorectal cancer. Application: pharmacogenomic.| | PubMed
- Nonadherence to imatinib during an economic downturn.| | PubMed
- A phase II study of bevacizumab plus erlotinib for gemcitabine-refractory metastatic pancreatic cancer.| | PubMed
- Drug development in advanced colorectal cancer: challenges and opportunities.| | PubMed
- Sorafenib in hepatocellular carcinoma: separating the hype from the hope.| | PubMed
- Erlotinib in the treatment of advanced pancreatic cancer.| | PubMed