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Margaret A. Tempero, M.D.

Gastrointestinal cancer specialist

Dr. Margaret Tempero is deputy director of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at Mount Zion. She is a pioneer in applying radioactively tagged antibodies for cancer therapy. She has led national research projects for gastrointestinal cancer, including pancreatic cancer.

She has held editorial positions on prestigious journals such as Cancer Research, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Clinical Cancer Research and American Journal of Medicine. Tempero is a professor of hematology and oncology and is the Doris and Don Fisher Distinguished Professor in Clinical Research. Prior to joining UCSF Medical Center, she was deputy director of the Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska.

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 Margaret A. Tempero

Education

University of Nebraska School of Medicine 1977

Residencies

University of Nebraska Medical Center, Internal Medicine 1980

Fellowships

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer, Hematology 1981
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Oncology 1983

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Collisson EA, Sadanandam A, Olson P, Gibb WJ, Truitt M, Gu S, Cooc J, Weinkle J, Kim GE, Jakkula L, Feiler HS, Ko AH, Olshen AB, Danenberg KL, Tempero MA, Spellman PT, Hanahan D, Gray JW. Subtypes of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and their differing responses to therapy. Nat Med. 2011 Apr; 17(4):500-3.
  2. Tempero MA, Berlin J, Ducreux M, Haller D, Harper P, Khayat D, Schmoll HJ, Sobrero A, Van Cutsem E. Pancreatic cancer treatment and research: an international expert panel discussion. Ann Oncol. 2011 Jul; 22(7):1500-6.
  3. Collisson E, Tempero M. Blinded by the light: molecular imaging in pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Clin Cancer Res. 2011 Jan 15; 17(2):203-5.
  4. Tempero MA, Arnoletti JP, Behrman S, Ben-Josef E, Benson AB, Berlin JD, Cameron JL, Casper ES, Cohen SJ, Duff M, Ellenhorn JD, Hawkins WG, Hoffman JP, Kuvshinoff BW, Malafa MP, Muscarella P, Nakakura EK, Sasson AR, Thayer SP, Tyler DS, Warren RS, Whiting S, Willett C, Wolff RA. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2010 Sep; 8(9):972-1017.
  5. International network of cancer genome projects. Nature. 2010 Apr 15; 464(7291):993-8.
  6. Ko AH, Venook AP, Bergsland EK, Kelley RK, Korn WM, Dito E, Schillinger B, Scott J, Hwang J, Tempero MA. A phase II study of bevacizumab plus erlotinib for gemcitabine-refractory metastatic pancreatic cancer. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 2010 Nov; 66(6):1051-7.
  7. Kulke MH, Tempero MA, Niedzwiecki D, Hollis DR, Kindler HL, Cusnir M, Enzinger PC, Gorsch SM, Goldberg RM, Mayer RJ. Randomized phase II study of gemcitabine administered at a fixed dose rate or in combination with cisplatin, docetaxel, or irinotecan in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer: CALGB 89904. J Clin Oncol. 2009 Nov 20; 27(33):5506-12.
  8. Philip PA, Mooney M, Jaffe D, Eckhardt G, Moore M, Meropol N, Emens L, O'Reilly E, Korc M, Ellis L, Benedetti J, Rothenberg M, Willett C, Tempero M, Lowy A, Abbruzzese J, Simeone D, Hingorani S, Berlin J, Tepper J. Consensus report of the national cancer institute clinical trials planning meeting on pancreas cancer treatment. J Clin Oncol. 2009 Nov 20; 27(33):5660-9.
  9. Ko AH, Tempero MA. Personalized medicine for pancreatic cancer: a step in the right direction. Gastroenterology. 2009 Jan; 136(1):43-5.
  10. Wong D, Ko AH, Hwang J, Venook AP, Bergsland EK, Tempero MA. Serum CA19-9 decline compared to radiographic response as a surrogate for clinical outcomes in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer receiving chemotherapy. Pancreas. 2008 Oct; 37(3):269-74.
  11. Van Cutsem E, Dicato M, Haustermans K, Arber N, Bosset JF, Cunningham D, De Gramont A, Diaz-Rubio E, Ducreux M, Goldberg R, Glynne-Jones R, Haller D, Kang YK, Kerr D, Labianca R, Minsky BD, Moore M, Nordlinger B, Rougier P, Scheithauer W, Schmoll HJ, Sobrero A, Tabernero J, Tempero M, Van de Velde C, Zalcberg J. The diagnosis and management of rectal cancer: expert discussion and recommendations derived from the 9th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer, Barcelona, 2007. Ann Oncol. 2008 Jun; 19 Suppl 6:vi1-8.
  12. Ko AH, Dito E, Schillinger B, Venook AP, Xu Z, Bergsland EK, Wong D, Scott J, Hwang J, Tempero MA. A phase II study evaluating bevacizumab in combination with fixed-dose rate gemcitabine and low-dose cisplatin for metastatic pancreatic cancer: is an anti-VEGF strategy still applicable? Invest New Drugs. 2008 Oct; 26(5):463-71.
  13. Ko AH, Dito E, Schillinger B, Venook AP, Bergsland EK, Tempero MA. Excess toxicity associated with docetaxel and irinotecan in patients with metastatic, gemcitabine-refractory pancreatic cancer: results of a phase II study. Cancer Invest. 2008 Feb; 26(1):47-52.
  14. Tempero MA. How I treat pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. J Oncol Pract. 2008 Jan; 4(1):46-7.
  15. Tempero M, Arnoletti JP, Ben-Josef E, Bhargava P, Casper ES, Kim P, Malafa MP, Nakakura EK, Shibata S, Talamonti M, Wang H, Willett C. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2007 Nov; 5(10):998-1033.
  16. Verslype C, Van Cutsem E, Dicato M, Cascinu S, Cunningham D, Diaz-Rubio E, Glimelius B, Haller D, Haustermans K, Heinemann V, Hoff P, Johnston PG, Kerr D, Labianca R, Louvet C, Minsky B, Moore M, Nordlinger B, Pedrazzoli S, Roth A, Rothenberg M, Rougier P, Schmoll HJ, Tabernero J, Tempero M, van de Velde C, Van Laethem JL, Zalcberg J. The management of pancreatic cancer. Current expert opinion and recommendations derived from the 8th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer, Barcelona, 2006. Ann Oncol. 2007 Jun; 18 Suppl 7:vii1-vii10.
  17. Ko AH, Quivey JM, Venook AP, Bergsland EK, Dito E, Schillinger B, Tempero MA. A phase II study of fixed-dose rate gemcitabine plus low-dose cisplatin followed by consolidative chemoradiation for locally advanced pancreatic cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2007 Jul 1; 68(3):809-16.
  18. Kelloff GJ, Sullivan DC, Baker H, Clarke LP, Nordstrom R, Tatum JL, Dorfman GS, Jacobs P, Berg CD, Pomper MG, Birrer MJ, Tempero M, Higley HR, Petty BG, Sigman CC, Maley C, Sharma P, Wax A, Ginsberg GG, Dannenberg AJ, Hawk ET, Messing EM, Grossman HB, Harisinghani M, Bigio IJ, Griebel D, Henson DE, Fabian CJ, Ferrara K, Fantini S, Schnall MD, Zujewski JA, Hayes W, Klein EA, DeMarzo A, Ocak I, Ketterling JA, Tempany C, Shtern F, Parnes HL, Gomez J, Srivastava S, Szabo E, Lam S, Seibel EJ, Massion P, McLennan G, Cleary K, Suh R, Burt RW, Pfeiffer RM, Hoffman JM, Roy HK, Wang T, Limburg PJ, El-Deiry WS, Papadimitrakopoulou V, Hittelman WN, MacAulay C, Veltri RW, Solomon D, Jeronimo J, Richards-Kortum R, Johnson KA, Viner JL, Stratton SP, Rajadhyaksha M, Dhawan A. Workshop on imaging science development for cancer prevention and preemption. Cancer Biomark. 2007; 3(1):1-33.
  19. Jhawer M, Rosen L, Dancey J, Hochster H, Hamburg S, Tempero M, Clendeninn N, Mani S. Phase II trial of nolatrexed dihydrochloride [Thymitaq, AG 337] in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. Invest New Drugs. 2007 Feb; 25(1):85-94.
  20. Hruban RH, Rustgi AK, Brentnall TA, Tempero MA, Wright CV, Tuveson DA. Pancreatic cancer in mice and man: the Penn Workshop 2004. Cancer Res. 2006 Jan 1; 66(1):14-7.

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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