Dr. Nancy L. Ascher MD
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
400 Parnassus Ave 405 Irving Street San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Nancy Ascher, chair of the UCSF Department of Surgery, has devoted her career to organ transplants and transplant research. She has served on the Presidential Task Force on Organ Transplantation, ...
Education and Training
Univ of Mi Med Sch, Ann Arbor Mi 1974
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Effect of systemic cyclosporine on tumor recurrence after liver transplantation in a model of hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Four-year follow-up of mycophenolate mofetil for graft rescue in liver allograft recipients.
- Examination of vascular anastomoses during liver transplantation by intraoperative Doppler duplex scanning.
- Liver transplantation for autoimmune hepatitis: rejection and recurrence.
- Physical activity and health-related quality of life in liver transplant recipients.
- Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: expansion of the tumor size limits does not adversely impact survival.
- Immunosuppressant substitutes in liver transplantation.
- Liver transplantation for nonviral, nonmalignant diseases:problem of recurrence.
- A randomized trial of exercise training after renal transplantation.
- Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: comparison of the proposed UCSF criteria with the Milan criteria and the Pittsburgh modified TNM criteria.
- Allograft rejection in pediatric liver transplantation: Comparison between cadaveric and living related donors.
- Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: analysis of survival according to the intention-to-treat principle and dropout from the waiting list.
- Intraoperative hemodynamics and liver function in adult-to-adult living liver donors.
- What's new in general surgery: transplantation.
- A follow-up analysis of the pattern and predictors of dropout from the waiting list for liver transplantation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: implications for the current organ allocation policy.
Awards
- 2012 San Francisco Super Doctors
Treatments
- Kidney Transplant, Liver Transplant
Fellowships
- University of Minnesota, Transplant Surgery 1982
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities - Medical School, Minneapolis, Mn, United States, M.D. 1982
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