News & Events: Breast Cancer Treatment

Laura J. Esserman, MD, MBA and her research team have been awarded a $9.1M NIH R01 grant from the National Cancer Institue (NCI). The focus of the grant is to enable expansion of The WISDOM Study to new recruitment sites/partnerships including Louisiana State University, the University of Chicago, the University of Alabama, and a women's health clinical care network in Florida. This will advance the goal of increasing diversity in the study, provide the benefits of the study to underserved populations, and enable generalizability of study results to the demographics of the US. Project [...]

Laura J. Esserman, MD, MBA has been awarded a $760K FDA Grant through the UCSF-Stanford Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI). CERSI is a joint undertaking among the UCSF School of Pharmacy and School of Medicine, the Stanford University School of Engineering and School of Medicine and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the first regulatory science and innovation center on the West Coast. The grant funds Phase 2 of the "OneSource" Project, which is designed to address regulatory challenges of information systems relating to clinical research given the [...]

Laura J. Esserman, MD, MBA was selected as the 2018 OncLive® "Giant of Cancer Care" in Cancer Diagnostics. Dr. Esserman is professor of Surgery and Radiology at UCSF and director of the UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center. She was chosen by an elite committee of her peers based on her long history of outstanding work in the field as noted in the announcement: Dr. Esserman led efforts to address harms of screening including overdiagnosis, and proposed tools including the development of molecular diagnostics to help reclassify tumors as indolent lesions of epithelial origin or [...]

UCSF News reports on the results of a new multi-center study showing that scalp cooling can mitigate one of most devastating side effects of systemic chemotherapy, hair loss, in a significant number of breast cancer patients. The results were reported on in JAMA. Hope S. Rugo, MD , was the lead author and Principal Investigator on the study.  Michelle E. Melisko, MD, and Laura Esserman, MD (pictured), of UCSF were among the coauthors of the study. Scalp cooling can lessen some chemotherapy-induced hair loss – one of the most devastating hallmarks of cancer – in certain breast cancer [...]

Exome, an online journal of biotech, healthcare, and life sciences, reports on a new clinical study in breast cancer patients led by Jasmine M. Wong, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery in the Division of General Surgery, Section of Breastcare Surgery. The clinical trial at UCSF will be evaluating, AVB-620, a diagnostic agent that helps surgeons differentiate cancerous tissue from healthy tissue in real time. San Diego's Avelas Biosciences says today that UC San Francisco has begun enrolling women who face breast cancer surgery in a clinical trial for AVB-620, a diagnostic agent [...]