Dr. Laura J. Esserman MD
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
1600 Divisadero Street San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Laura Esserman is a surgical oncologist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Esserman specializes in diagnosing, staging and treating cancer-related symptoms. Surgical oncologists also decide if the patient is a candidate for surgery or other cancer treatments based on certain factors such as age, physical fitness and other possible coexisting medical conditions
Education and Training
Stanford Univ Sch Of Med- Stanford Ca 1983
Stanford University School of Medicine 1984
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Vaccination with the extracellular domain of p185neu prevents mammary tumor development in neu transgenic mice.
- Prophylactic mastectomy in women with a high risk of breast cancer.
- Management of ductal carcinoma in situ.
- Building bridges between physicians and patients: results of a pilot study
- Current national health insurance coverage policies for breast and ovarian cancer prophylactic surgery.
- MR imaging of the breast in patients with positive margins after lumpectomy: influence of the time interval between lumpectomy and MR imaging.
- Integration of breast imaging into cancer management.
- Does timely assessment affect the anxiety associated with an abnormal mammogram result?
- Consultation planning to help breast cancer patients prepare for medical
- New approaches to the imaging, diagnosis, and biopsy of breast lesions.
- Major histocompatibility complex class II transcriptional platform: assembly of nuclear factor Y and regulatory factor X (RFX) on DNA requires RFX5 dimers.
- Accuracy of MR imaging for revealing residual breast cancer in patients who have undergone neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
- Epithelial and fibroblast cell lines derived from a spontaneous mammary carcinoma in a MMTV/neu transgenic mouse.
- Improving the quality of decision making in breast cancer: consultation planning template and consultation recording template.
- Magnetic resonance imaging in patients diagnosed with ductal carcinoma-in-situ: value in the diagnosis of residual disease, occult invasion, and multicentricity.
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- Breast Cancer
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