Rahul Aggarwal

MD

Developmental therapeutics specialist
Genitourinary oncologist
Cancer researcher and sports enthusiast

Dr. Rahul Aggarwal is a specialist in cancers of the genital and urinary organs. He cares for patients at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. He also serves as director of the UCSF STAND (Supportive Therapy in Androgen Deprivation) Clinic, which provides comprehensive care to men who are receiving androgen deprivation therapy, hormone therapy for prostate cancer.

As a member of the Developmental Therapeutics Genitourinary Cancer Program, Aggarwal enrolls patients with advanced solid tumor malignancies into early-phase clinical trials of novel targeted treatments. His research focuses on developing hormonal treatment strategies that reduce the toxicity of androgen deprivation therapy for men with advanced prostate cancer. He is also interested in developing new molecular imaging techniques that will help predict how advanced solid tumors will respond to treatment.

Aggarwal earned his medical degree from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. At UCSF, he completed an internship and residency in internal medicine, followed by a clinical fellowship in hematology and oncology.

Aggarwal has also been a research fellow in developmental therapeutics at Genentech. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and recipient of the ASCO/Conquer Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award.

  • Education

    Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 2006

  • Residencies

    UCSF Medical Center, Internal Medicine, 2009

  • Fellowships

    UCSF Medical Center, Hematology/Oncology, 2013

  • Board Certifications

    Medical Oncology, American Board of Internal Medicine

    Hematology, American Board of Internal Medicine

  • Academic Title

    Associate Professor

It's an honor to help take care of people with cancer, and I strive each and every day to improve outcomes for our patients.

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    FOR46 in Combination With Enzalutamide in Patients With Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostat...

    A minimum of 3 patients will be treated at each dose level. If < 33%of patients (i.e. 0 of 3 patients, or 1 of 6 patients) within a cohort have a dose-limiting toxicity (DLT in Cycle 1, then enrollment of the next cohort may comme...

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    APL-101 Study of Subjects With NSCLC With c-Met EXON 14 Skip Mutations and c-Met Dysregulation ...

    Adverse events, serious adverse events, and dose limiting toxicities

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    Apalutamide Plus Cetrelimab in Patients With Treatment-Emergent Small Cell Neuroendocrine Prost...

    The composite response rate is determined by a combination of a decline from baseline in serum PSA of >= 50%, confirmed by repeat measurement ≥ 4 weeks later (PSA50) AND/OR a complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) as dete...

    Recruiting

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    A Study of Tarlatamab (AMG 757) in Participants With Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer

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    ZEN-3694, Enzalutamide, and Pembrolizumab for the Treatment of Metastatic Castration-Resistant ...

    Defined as either objective response per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 criteria (complete response (CR), partial response (PR)) or confirmed >= 50% decline from serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) at ...

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    PROMOTE: Identifying Predictive Markers of Response for Genitourinary Cancer

    Using PARADIGM and DiPSC tools, we will discover the expression and clinical factors that are predictive and correlate with treatment benefit within each treatment cohort.

    Recruiting

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    68Ga-PSMA-11 PET for the Diagnosis of Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer

    The mean SUVmax and standard deviation across the primary tumor and the 5 largest lesions in each of three metastatic sites (nodal, visceral and osseous; for a maximum of 16 lesions per patient) will be descriptively reported.

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    Apalutamide With or Without Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in Treating Participants With C...

    The primary endpoint for the study is the proportion of patients with undetectable serum PSA (< 0.2 ng/mL) at 6 months following completion of apalutamide therapy (18 months from date of randomization). Patients who discontinue ap...

    Recruiting

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    A Study of Copanlisib Combined With Rucaparib in Patients With Metastatic Castration-resistant ...

    To evaluate the maximum tolerated dose of copanlisib with rucaparib in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

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    A Study of Androgen Annihilation in High-Risk Biochemically Relapsed Prostate Cancer

    To compare PSA progression-free survival in each of the experimental arms (LHRH analogue + apalutamide; LHRH analogue + apalutamide +abiraterone acetate) versus the control arm (LHRH analogue) among all randomized patients (intent...

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