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Eric Small, M.D.

Co-director of the Urologic Cancer Service

Dr. Eric J. Small is co-director of the Urologic Cancer Service and director of Urologic Oncology Research. His patient care and research focus is prostate cancer, immunotherapy and the mechanisms of resistance to standard therapies. He is a member of several professional medical societies including the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Urological Association. He is a member of the Therapy Consortium of CaP CURE, the largest private source of prostate cancer research funding, and on the board of directors of the American Prostate Cancer Foundation. He chairs the Prostate Cancer Correlative Sciences Working Group of the Cancer and Leukemia Group B Cooperative Oncology Group.

Small earned a bachelor's degree at Stanford University and a medical degree at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, where he graduated with honors. While in medical school, he completed a fellowship in pathology. He completed post-graduate residency training in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital and a fellowship in hematology and oncology at the UCSF Cancer Research Institute. He is a professor of medicine and urology at UCSF.

Clinics

Prostate Cancer Center
1600 Divisadero St., Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94115
Phone: (415) 353-7171
Fax: (415) 353-7093

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

Prostate Cancer Risk and Prevention Clinic
1600 Divisadero St, Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94115
Phone: (415) 353-7171
Fax: (415) 353-7093

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

Urologic Surgery and Oncology
1600 Divisadero St., Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94115
Phone: (415) 353-7171
Fax: (415) 353-7093

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

Conditions & Treatments

More about Eric Small

Additional Languages

Chinese
Spanish

Education

Case Western Reserve 1985

Residencies

Beth Israel Hospital Boston, Internal Medicine 1988

Fellowships

UCSF, Hematology 1991
UCSF, Oncology 1995

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Clark PE, Agarwal N, Biagioli MC, Eisenberger MA, Greenberg RE, Herr HW, Inman BA, Kuban DA, Kuzel TM, Lele SM, Michalski J, Pagliaro LC, Pal SK, Patterson A, Plimack ER, Pohar KS, Porter MP, Richie JP, Sexton WJ, Shipley WU, Small EJ, Spiess PE, Trump DL, Wile G, Wilson TG, Dwyer M, Ho M. Bladder cancer. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2013 Apr 1; 11(4):446-75.
  2. Cha E, Small EJ. Is there a role for immune checkpoint blockade with ipilimumab in prostate cancer? Cancer Med. 2013 Apr; 2(2):243-52.
  3. Apolo AB, Ostrovnaya I, Halabi S, Iasonos A, Philips GK, Rosenberg JE, Riches J, Small EJ, Milowsky MI, Bajorin DF. Prognostic model for predicting survival of patients with metastatic urothelial cancer treated with Cisplatin-based chemotherapy. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2013 Apr 3; 105(7):499-503.
  4. Goodwin PJ, Ballman KV, Small EJ, Cannistra SA. Evaluation of treatment benefit in journal of clinical oncology. J Clin Oncol. 2013 Mar 20; 31(9):1123-4.
  5. Ryan CJ, Smith MR, de Bono JS, Molina A, Logothetis CJ, de Souza P, Fizazi K, Mainwaring P, Piulats JM, Ng S, Carles J, Mulders PF, Basch E, Small EJ, Saad F, Schrijvers D, Van Poppel H, Mukherjee SD, Suttmann H, Gerritsen WR, Flaig TW, George DJ, Yu EY, Efstathiou E, Pantuck A, Winquist E, Higano CS, Taplin ME, Park Y, Kheoh T, Griffin T, Scher HI, Rathkopf DE. Abiraterone in metastatic prostate cancer without previous chemotherapy. N Engl J Med. 2013 Jan 10; 368(2):138-48.
  6. Smith DC, Smith MR, Sweeney C, Elfiky AA, Logothetis C, Corn PG, Vogelzang NJ, Small EJ, Harzstark AL, Gordon MS, Vaishampayan UN, Haas NB, Spira AI, Lara PN, Lin CC, Srinivas S, Sella A, Schöffski P, Scheffold C, Weitzman AL, Hussain M. Cabozantinib in Patients With Advanced Prostate Cancer: Results of a Phase II Randomized Discontinuation Trial. J Clin Oncol. 2013 Feb 1; 31(4):412-9.
  7. Kwek SS, Dao V, Roy R, Hou Y, Alajajian D, Simko JP, Small EJ, Fong L. Diversity of antigen-specific responses induced in vivo with CTLA-4 blockade in prostate cancer patients. J Immunol. 2012 Oct 1; 189(7):3759-66.
  8. Tangen CM, Hussain MH, Higano CS, Eisenberger MA, Small EJ, Wilding G, Donnelly BJ, Schelhammer PF, Crawford ED, Vogelzang NJ, Powell IJ, Thompson IM. Improved overall survival trends of men with newly diagnosed M1 prostate cancer: a SWOG phase III trial experience (S8494, S8894 and S9346). J Urol. 2012 Oct; 188(4):1164-9.
  9. Kantoff PW, Higano CS, Small EJ, Whitmore JB, Frohlich MW, Schellhammer PF. Re: interdisciplinary critique of sipuleucel-T as immunotherapy in castration-resistant prostate cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2012 Jul 18; 104(14):1107-9; author reply 1109-12.
  10. Bluestone JA, Small EJ. The future of cancer treatment: will it include immunotherapy? Cancer Cell. 2012 Jul 10; 22(1):7-8.
  11. Kelly WK, Halabi S, Carducci M, George D, Mahoney JF, Stadler WM, Morris M, Kantoff P, Monk JP, Kaplan E, Vogelzang NJ, Small EJ. Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase III trial comparing docetaxel and prednisone with or without bevacizumab in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: CALGB 90401. J Clin Oncol. 2012 May 1; 30(13):1534-40.
  12. Monk JP, Halabi S, Picus J, Hussain A, Philips G, Kaplan E, Ahles T, Gu L, Vogelzang N, Kelly WK, Small EJ. Efficacy of peripheral androgen blockade in prostate cancer patients with biochemical failure after definitive local therapy: results of Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) 9782. Cancer. 2012 Sep 1; 118(17):4139-47.
  13. Small EJ, de Bono JS. Prostate cancer: evolution or revolution? J Clin Oncol. 2011 Sep 20; 29(27):3595-8.
  14. Hurwitz MD, Halabi S, Archer L, McGinnis LS, Kuettel MR, DiBiase SJ, Small EJ. Combination external beam radiation and brachytherapy boost with androgen deprivation for treatment of intermediate-risk prostate cancer: long-term results of CALGB 99809. Cancer. 2011 Dec 15; 117(24):5579-88.
  15. Small EJ, Penson DF, Sartor O. The relationship between symptomatology and treatment selection in metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer. Clin Adv Hematol Oncol. 2011 Jul; 9(7 Suppl 13):1-16.
  16. Ryan CJ, Shah S, Efstathiou E, Smith MR, Taplin ME, Bubley GJ, Logothetis CJ, Kheoh T, Kilian C, Haqq CM, Molina A, Small EJ. Phase II study of abiraterone acetate in chemotherapy-naive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer displaying bone flare discordant with serologic response. Clin Cancer Res. 2011 Jul 15; 17(14):4854-61.
  17. Harzstark AL, Small EJ, Weinberg VK, Sun J, Ryan CJ, Lin AM, Fong L, Brocks DR, Rosenberg JE. A phase 1 study of everolimus and sorafenib for metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Cancer. 2011 Sep 15; 117(18):4194-200.
  18. Stadler WM, Phillips G, George DJ, Halabi S, Small E. Bevacizumab and everolimus in renal cancer: a rational way forward. J Clin Oncol. 2010 Nov 20; 28(33):e692-3; author reply e694.
  19. Friedlander TW, Weinberg VK, Small EJ, Sharib J, Harzstark AL, Lin AM, Fong L, Ryan CJ. Effect of the somatostatin analog octreotide acetate on circulating insulin-like growth factor-1 and related peptides in patients with non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: results of a phase II study. Urol Oncol. 2012 Jul-Aug; 30(4):408-14.
  20. Picus J, Halabi S, Kelly WK, Vogelzang NJ, Whang YE, Kaplan EB, Stadler WM, Small EJ. A phase 2 study of estramustine, docetaxel, and bevacizumab in men with castrate-resistant prostate cancer: results from Cancer and Leukemia Group B Study 90006. Cancer. 2011 Feb 1; 117(3):526-33.

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