Biography
Robert S. Warren, M.D. is a Professor of Surgery and a specialist in gastrointestinal and liver cancer. He earned a medical degree at the University of Minnesota, where he completed a general surgery residency. After completing an oncology research fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, he was an associate physician at Rockefeller University in New York. A board-certified surgeon, Dr. Warren joined UCSF Medical Center in 1988. Highly respected by his peers, Dr. Warren was named to the list of U.S. News "America's Top Doctors," a distinction reserved for the top 1% of physicians in the nation for a given specialty. His research focuses on the biology of colorectal cancer and how it spreads.
Dr. Warren is involved in clinical and laboratory research, which has centered on the biology of colorectal cancer metastasis that includes Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF), Insulin-Like Growth Factors and Their Binding Proteins AS Modulators of Growth of Colorectal Cancer Metastases and Cytogenetics of Colorectal Cancer Metastasis. The laboratory work focuses on two areas: 1) autocrine growth factors and angiogenesis in colorectal cancer 2) molecular features which predict clinical outcome in primary and metastatic colorectal cancer.
Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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University of Minnesota | M.D. | School of Medicine | 1980 |
Board Certifications
- American Board of Surgery, 1989
Program Affiliations
- Surgical Oncology Program
- Surgical Oncology Laboratory
- UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
- UCSF Department of Surgery
In the News
Grants and Funding
- General Clinical Research Center | NIH | 1974-12-01 - 2009-03-31 | Role: Co-Investigator
- MOLECULAR MARKERS OF PROGNOSIS IN COLON CANCER | NIH | 2000-03-03 - 2006-02-28 | Role: Principal Investigator
- ROLE OF CYTOKINES IN CANCER PATIENTS UNDERGOING SURGERY | NIH | 1993-07-01 - 1999-06-30 | Role: Principal Investigator
Research Narrative
- Biology of colorectal cancer metastasis
- Molecular features which predict clinical outcome in primary and metastatic colorectal cancer
- Autocrine growth factors and angiogenesis in colorectal cancer
- Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) Hypoxia and Colon Cancer
- Insulin-Like Growth Factors and Their Binding Proteins As Modulators of Growth of Colorectal Cancer Metastases
- Cytogenetics of Colorectal Cancer Metastasis
Publications
- Complete and safe resection of challenging retroperitoneal tumors: anticipation of multi-organ and major vascular resection and use of adjunct procedures.| | PubMed
- Documenting the natural history of patients with resected stage II adenocarcinoma of the colon after random assignment to adjuvant treatment with edrecolomab or observation: results from CALGB 9581.| | PubMed
- Microsatellite instability and loss of heterozygosity at chromosomal location 18q: prospective evaluation of biomarkers for stages II and III colon cancer--a study of CALGB 9581 and 89803.| | PubMed
- Pancreatic adenocarcinoma.| | PubMed
- Lack of NKX2.2 expression in bronchopulmonary typical carcinoid tumors: implications for patients with neuroendocrine tumor metastases and unknown primary site.| | PubMed
- Identification of unknown primary tumors in patients with neuroendocrine liver metastases.| | PubMed
- The ETS oncogene family transcription factor FEV identifies serotonin-producing cells in normal and neoplastic small intestine.| | PubMed
- p27Kip1 in stage III colon cancer: implications for outcome following adjuvant chemotherapy in cancer and leukemia group B protocol 89803.| | PubMed
- Microsatellite instability predicts improved response to adjuvant therapy with irinotecan, fluorouracil, and leucovorin in stage III colon cancer: Cancer and Leukemia Group B Protocol 89803.| | PubMed
- Mitogen-inducible gene-6 expression correlates with survival and is an independent predictor of recurrence in BRAF(V600E) positive papillary thyroid cancers.| | PubMed