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Alan Venook, M.D.

Gastrointestinal cancer specialist

Dr. Alan Venook is a nationally renowned expert in colorectal and liver cancers at UCSF Medical Center where he leads the Gastrointestinal Oncology clinical program. He also is a professor of clinical medicine at UCSF and is the director of the UCSF Cancer Center Clinical Research Office at the Mount Zion site. His research focuses on treating liver tumors with directed approaches, including infusional chemotherapy or biological agents. Venook earned a bachelor's degree from Rutgers University in 1976 and graduated from the UCSF School of Medicine in 1980. He spent two years in the Public Health Service following internship, and trained in internal medicine at the University of California, Davis and in hematology and oncology at UCSF. He has been on the medical staff at UCSF since 1988.

Conditions & Treatments

Clinics

Center for Colorectal Surgery
2330 Post St., Suite 260
San Francisco, CA 94115-1799
Phone: (415) 885-3606
Fax: (415) 885-7678

Hours: Monday to Friday
8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Colorectal Cancer Clinic
1600 Divisadero St., Fourth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-9888

Hours: Monday to Friday
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Gastrointestinal Surgery and Oncology Clinic
1600 Divisadero St., Fourth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143-1705
Phone: (415) 353-9888
Fax: (415) 353-9931

Hours: Monday to Friday
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

More about Alan Venook

Education

UCSF School of Medicine 1980

Residencies

UC Davis Medical Center, Internal Medicine 1985

Fellowships

UCSF Medical Center, Medical Oncology 1987
UCSF Medical Center, Hematology 1988

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Kelley RK, Hirose R, Venook AP. Can we cure cholangiocarcinoma with neoadjuvant chemoradiation and liver transplantation? Time for a multicenter trial. Liver Transpl. 2012 May; 18(5):509-13.
  2. Kelley RK, Atreya C, Venook AP, Febbo PG. Predictive biomarkers in advance of a companion drug: ahead of their time? J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2012 Mar 1; 10(3):303-9.
  3. Van Loon K, Venook AP. Metastatic colorectal cancer: a curable disease. Oncology (Williston Park). 2012 Mar; 26(3):275-6, 282.
  4. Janne d'Othée B, Sofocleous CT, Hanna N, Lewandowski RJ, Soulen MC, Vauthey JN, Cohen SJ, Venook AP, Johnson MS, Kennedy AS, Murthy R, Geschwind JF, Kee ST. Development of a research agenda for the management of metastatic colorectal cancer: proceedings from a multidisciplinary research consensus panel. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2012 Feb; 23(2):153-63.
  5. Benson AB, Arnoletti JP, Bekaii-Saab T, Chan E, Chen YJ, Choti MA, Cooper HS, Dilawari RA, Engstrom PF, Enzinger PC, Fleshman JW, Fuchs CS, Grem JL, Knol JA, Leong LA, Lin E, May KS, Mulcahy MF, Murphy K, Rohren E, Ryan DP, Saltz L, Sharma S, Shibata D, Skibber JM, Small W, Sofocleous CT, Venook AP, Willett C. Colon cancer. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2011 Nov 1; 9(11):1238-90.
  6. Kelley RK, Wang G, Venook AP. Biomarker use in colorectal cancer therapy. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2011 Nov 1; 9(11):1293-302.
  7. Ng K, Ogino S, Meyerhardt JA, Chan JA, Chan AT, Niedzwiecki D, Hollis D, Saltz LB, Mayer RJ, Benson AB, Schaefer PL, Whittom R, Hantel A, Goldberg RM, Bertagnolli MM, Venook AP, Fuchs CS. Relationship between statin use and colon cancer recurrence and survival: results from CALGB 89803. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2011 Oct 19; 103(20):1540-51.
  8. Van Loon K, Venook AP. Adjuvant treatment of colon cancer: what is next? Curr Opin Oncol. 2011 Jul; 23(4):403-9.
  9. Roberts AS, Campa MJ, Gottlin EB, Jiang C, Owzar K, Kindler HL, Venook AP, Goldberg RM, O'Reilly EM, Patz EF. Identification of potential prognostic biomarkers in patients with untreated, advanced pancreatic cancer from a phase 3 trial (Cancer and Leukemia Group B 80303). Cancer. 2012 Jan 15; 118(2):571-8.
  10. Espinoza AM, Venook AP. Lactic acidosis and colon cancer: oncologic emergency? Clin Colorectal Cancer. 2011 Sep; 10(3):194-7.
  11. Kelley RK, Venook AP. Prognostic and predictive markers in stage II colon cancer: is there a role for gene expression profiling? Clin Colorectal Cancer. 2011 Jun; 10(2):73-80.
  12. Peng J, Chen W, Venook AP, Sheng W, Xu Y, Guan Z, Cai G, Cai S. Long-term outcome of early-stage rectal cancer undergoing standard resection and local excision. Clin Colorectal Cancer. 2011 Mar 1; 10(1):37-41.
  13. Gordan JD, Chay WY, Kelley RK, Ko AH, Choo SP, Venook AP. "And what other medications are you taking?". J Clin Oncol. 2011 Apr 10; 29(11):e288-91.
  14. Kelley RK, Van Bebber SL, Phillips KA, Venook AP. Personalized medicine and oncology practice guidelines: a case study of contemporary biomarkers in colorectal cancer. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2011 Jan; 9(1):13-25.
  15. Peng J, Sheng W, Huang D, Venook AP, Xu Y, Guan Z, Cai S. Perineural invasion in pT3N0 rectal cancer: the incidence and its prognostic effect. Cancer. 2011 Apr 1; 117(7):1415-21.
  16. Kelley RK, Venook AP. Nonadherence to imatinib during an economic downturn. N Engl J Med. 2010 Aug 5; 363(6):596-8.
  17. Thomas MB, Jaffe D, Choti MM, Belghiti J, Curley S, Fong Y, Gores G, Kerlan R, Merle P, O'Neil B, Poon R, Schwartz L, Tepper J, Yao F, Haller D, Mooney M, Venook A. Hepatocellular carcinoma: consensus recommendations of the National Cancer Institute Clinical Trials Planning Meeting. J Clin Oncol. 2010 Sep 1; 28(25):3994-4005.
  18. Roberts JP, Venook A, Kerlan R, Yao F. Hepatocellular carcinoma: Ablate and wait versus rapid transplantation. Liver Transpl. 2010 Aug; 16(8):925-9.
  19. Lencioni R, Marrero J, Venook A, Ye SL, Kudo M. Design and rationale for the non-interventional Global Investigation of Therapeutic DEcisions in Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Of its Treatment with Sorafenib (GIDEON) study. Int J Clin Pract. 2010 Jul; 64(8):1034-41.
  20. Schwarz RE, Abou-Alfa GK, Geschwind JF, Krishnan S, Salem R, Venook AP. Nonoperative therapies for combined modality treatment of hepatocellular cancer: expert consensus statement. HPB (Oxford). 2010 Jun; 12(5):313-20.

Publications are derived from MEDLINE/PubMed and provided by UCSF Profiles, a service of the Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at UCSF. Researchers can make corrections and additions by logging on to UCSF Profiles.

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