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    Lulu Nurse is excited to introduce Dr. Alan Venook from the University of California at San Francisco as our next expert guest speaker to discuss young onset colorectal cancer.  Not only is Dr. Venook a national leader in the field of GI oncology, but we were lucky to have him care for Cindy while she lived in San Francisco.     Dr. Alan Venook is the Madden Family Distinguished Professor of Medical Oncology and Translational Research at UCSF and is the Shorenstein Associate Director for Program Development at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCSF.  He was the founding Chairman of the NCI’s Hepatobiliary Task Force and chaired the GI Committee of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology from 2010-16.     Dr. Venook’s research interests include the regional treatment of tumors in the liver and the development of new therapies for colorectal and liver cancers.  It was his observation from data in an advanced colorectal cancer study -- CALGB/SWOG 80405 – that helped define “sidedness”, the phenomenon that colon cancers that begin in and then spread metastases from the right colon are biologically different than those that arise on the left side.  Recently his group has turned its focus to understanding the interactions between immunotherapy and the microbiome.  

Early Onset Colorectal Cancer- Video

   

Author : Alan Venook, MD