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Hope Rugo, M.D.

Breast cancer specialist

Dr. Hope Rugo is a hematologist and oncologist specializing in breast cancer treatment. Rugo joined the UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center after a decade at UCSF Medical Center working in the area of malignant hematology and bone marrow transplantation for a variety of diseases, including breast cancer.

Rugo, co-director of the Breast Oncology Clinical Trials Program, has a special interest in therapies for breast cancer and is the principal investigator of several clinical trials testing these treatments. She is a professor of medicine at UCSF and an investigator of SPORE (Specialized Program of Research Excellence in Breast Cancer) in the Bay Area.

Clinics

Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center
1600 Divisadero St., Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94115
Phone: (415) 353-7070
Fax: (415) 353-7050

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

Cancer Risk Program
1600 Divisadero St., Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143-1714
Phone: (415) 885-7779
Fax: (415) 885-3787

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

Conditions & Treatments

More about Hope Rugo

Additional Languages

French
Spanish

Education

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 1984

Residencies

UCSF Medical Center, Internal Medicine 1987

Fellowships

UCSF Medical Center, Hematology 1990
UCSF Medical Center, Oncology 1995

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Burris HA, Lebrun F, Rugo HS, Beck JT, Piccart M, Neven P, Baselga J, Petrakova K, Hortobagyi GN, Komorowski A, Chouinard E, Young R, Gnant M, Pritchard KI, Bennett L, Ricci JF, Bauly H, Taran T, Sahmoud T, Noguchi S. Health-related quality of life of patients with advanced breast cancer treated with everolimus plus exemestane versus placebo plus exemestane in the phase 3, randomized, controlled, BOLERO-2 trial. Cancer. 2013 May 15; 119(10):1908-15.
  2. Gnant M, Baselga J, Rugo HS, Noguchi S, Burris HA, Piccart M, Hortobagyi GN, Eakle J, Mukai H, Iwata H, Geberth M, Hart LL, Hadji P, El-Hashimy M, Rao S, Taran T, Sahmoud T, Lebwohl D, Campone M, Pritchard KI. Effect of Everolimus on Bone Marker Levels and Progressive Disease in Bone in BOLERO-2. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2013 May 1; 105(9):654-63.
  3. Grunberg SM, Rugo HS. Discussion: Emerging Treatments in CINV. Clin Adv Hematol Oncol. 2013 Feb; 11(2 Suppl 1):14-6.
  4. Rugo HS. Impact of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. Clin Adv Hematol Oncol. 2013 Feb; 11(2 Suppl 1):11-3.
  5. Vandergrift JL, Niland JC, Theriault RL, Edge SB, Wong YN, Loftus LS, Breslin TM, Hudis CA, Javid SH, Rugo HS, Silver SM, Lepisto EM, Weeks JC. Time to adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer in national comprehensive cancer network institutions. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2013 Jan 16; 105(2):104-12.
  6. Yee D, Haddad T, Albain K, Barker A, Benz C, Boughey J, Buxton M, Jo Chien A, Demichele A, Dilts D, Elias A, Haluska P, Hogarth M, Hu A, Hytlon N, Kaplan HG, Kelloff GG, Khan Q, Lang J, Leyland-Jones B, Liu M, Nanda R, Northfelt D, Olopade OI, Park J, Parker B, Parkinson D, Pearson-White S, Perlmutter J, Pusztai L, Symmans F, Rugo H, Tripathy D, Wallace A, Wholley D, Van't Veer L, Berry DA, Esserman L. Adaptive trials in the neoadjuvant setting: a model to safely tailor care while accelerating drug development. J Clin Oncol. 2012 Dec 20; 30(36):4584-6.
  7. Chien AJ, Rugo HS. Emerging treatment options for the management of brain metastases in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2013 Jan; 137(1):1-12.
  8. Magbanua MJ, Sosa EV, Roy R, Eisenbud LE, Scott JH, Olshen A, Pinkel D, Rugo HS, Park JW. Genomic profiling of isolated circulating tumor cells from metastatic breast cancer patients. Cancer Res. 2013 Jan 1; 73(1):30-40.
  9. Keck S, Glencer AC, Rugo HS. Everolimus and its role in hormone-resistant and trastuzumab-resistant metastatic breast cancer. Future Oncol. 2012 Nov; 8(11):1383-96.
  10. Cortés J, Calvo E, González-Martín A, Dawood S, Llombart-Cussac A, De Mattos-Arruda L, Gómez P, Silva O, Perez EA, Rugo HS, Lluch A, Hortobagyi GN. Progress against solid tumors in danger: the metastatic breast cancer example. J Clin Oncol. 2012 Oct 1; 30(28):3444-7.
  11. Kaufman PA, Brufsky AM, Mayer M, Rugo HS, Tripathy D, Yood MU, Feng S, Wang LI, Quah CS, Yardley DA. Treatment patterns and clinical outcomes in elderly patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer from the registHER observational study. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2012 Oct; 135(3):875-83.
  12. Bender BC, Schaedeli-Stark F, Koch R, Joshi A, Chu YW, Rugo H, Krop IE, Girish S, Friberg LE, Gupta M. A population pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic model of thrombocytopenia characterizing the effect of trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) on platelet counts in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 2012 Oct; 70(4):591-601.
  13. Bock M, Moore D, Hwang J, Shumay D, Lawson L, Hamolsky D, Esserman L, Rugo H, Chien AJ, Park J, Munster P, Melisko M. The impact of an electronic health questionnaire on symptom management and behavior reporting for breast cancer survivors. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2012 Aug; 134(3):1327-35.
  14. Niemasik EE, Letourneau J, Dohan D, Katz A, Melisko M, Rugo H, Rosen M. Patient perceptions of reproductive health counseling at the time of cancer diagnosis: a qualitative study of female California cancer survivors. J Cancer Surviv. 2012 Sep; 6(3):324-32.
  15. Rugo HS, Keck S. Reversing hormone resistance: have we found the golden key? J Clin Oncol. 2012 Aug 1; 30(22):2707-9.
  16. Stopeck AT, Brown-Glaberman U, Wong HY, Park BH, Barnato SE, Gradishar WJ, Hudis CA, Rugo HS. The role of targeted therapy and biomarkers in breast cancer treatment. Clin Exp Metastasis. 2012 Oct; 29(7):807-19.
  17. Blackwell KL, Burstein HJ, Storniolo AM, Rugo HS, Sledge G, Aktan G, Ellis C, Florance A, Vukelja S, Bischoff J, Baselga J, O'Shaughnessy J. Overall survival benefit with lapatinib in combination with trastuzumab for patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive metastatic breast cancer: final results from the EGF104900 Study. J Clin Oncol. 2012 Jul 20; 30(21):2585-92.
  18. Carey LA, Rugo HS, Marcom PK, Mayer EL, Esteva FJ, Ma CX, Liu MC, Storniolo AM, Rimawi MF, Forero-Torres A, Wolff AC, Hobday TJ, Ivanova A, Chiu WK, Ferraro M, Burrows E, Bernard PS, Hoadley KA, Perou CM, Winer EP. TBCRC 001: randomized phase II study of cetuximab in combination with carboplatin in stage IV triple-negative breast cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2012 Jul 20; 30(21):2615-23.
  19. Krop IE, LoRusso P, Miller KD, Modi S, Yardley D, Rodriguez G, Guardino E, Lu M, Zheng M, Girish S, Amler L, Winer EP, Rugo HS. A phase II study of trastuzumab emtansine in patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive metastatic breast cancer who were previously treated with trastuzumab, lapatinib, an anthracycline, a taxane, and capecitabine. J Clin Oncol. 2012 Sep 10; 30(26):3234-41.
  20. Esserman LJ, Berry DA, DeMichele A, Carey L, Davis SE, Buxton M, Hudis C, Gray JW, Perou C, Yau C, Livasy C, Krontiras H, Montgomery L, Tripathy D, Lehman C, Liu MC, Olopade OI, Rugo HS, Carpenter JT, Dressler L, Chhieng D, Singh B, Mies C, Rabban J, Chen YY, Giri D, van 't Veer L, Hylton N. Pathologic complete response predicts recurrence-free survival more effectively by cancer subset: results from the I-SPY 1 TRIAL--CALGB 150007/150012, ACRIN 6657. J Clin Oncol. 2012 Sep 10; 30(26):3242-9.

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