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| Contact Information |
San Francisco General Hospital
Building 100, Room 269
1001 Potrero St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 647-3992
(415) 647-3996 fax
epsteine@derm.ucsf.edu |
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| Training |
- MD: University of California, San Francisco
- Residency: Harvard/NYU
- Fellowship: National Institutes of Health
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| Clinical Specialties |
Research Interests |
- Patients with Multiple Non-Melanoma Skin Cancers
- Hereditary Skin Diseases
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- Susceptibility v. Resistance to Inherited Disorder, including
basal and squamous cell carcinomas of the skin.
- Molecular Basis of Inherited Skin Disorders
- Skin Cancer in Patients with Organ Transplants
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| Dr. Epstein has had two decade-long research programs identifying genes whose mutations underlie inherited skin disorders, in particular the susceptibility to developing large numbers of basal cell carcinomas of the skin. More recently his lab's focus has been on chemoprevention of basal cell carcinomas - the identification of novel agents and programs to prevent patients at high risk from developing these cancers. In addition, Dr. Epstein's lab has a developing interest in trying to understand why patients who have had kidney and other organ transplants develop so many skin cancers, with the hope that with such understanding will come better approaches to their prevention. |
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