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Hepatobiliary & Pancreas Service at UCSF
UCSF Department of Surgery
June 01, 2012
In July 2011, the Department of Surgery created a new Hepatobiliary and Pancreas Service naming Carlos Corvera M.D., a hepatobiliary surgical oncologist, as its Chief. The multidisciplinary program brings together faculty members from surgery, hepatology, medical oncology, anesthesia, radiology and pathology to...
Serendipitous Discovery of a Cancer Starter
UCSF Surgical Oncology Program
December 08, 2010
Then post-graduate student Eric Nakakura, M.D., Ph.D., working in the lab of Johns' Hopkins cancer biologist Barry Nelkin, was struck by how the migration of neurological cells to form the developing brain bore an uncanny similarly to the inexorable migration of invasive cells to distant sites in cancer metastasis...
UCSF Scientists Illuminate How microRNAs Drive Tumor Progression
UCSF Surgical Oncology Program
September 16, 2009
UCSF researchers, led by Doug Hanahan, Ph.D., have identified collections of tiny molecules known as microRNAs that affect distinct processes critical for cancer progression. The findings help elucidate the important regulatory function of microRNAs in tumor biology. Eric Nakakura, M.D., Ph.D. (pictured), a...
Surgical & Therapeutic Advances in Pancreatic Cancer
UCSF Surgical Oncology Program
July 15, 2009
For now, the only possible route to outliving pancreas cancer is complete removal of the tumor via surgery. Surgery for pancreas cancer is long and demanding, and surgeons must be practiced to consistently perform it well. Pancreas cancer surgery outcomes are better at high-volume, major medical centers such as...