Alan P. Venook, MD

Alan P. Venook, MD

Madden Family Distinguished Professorship in Medical Oncology and Translational Research, UCSF

Shorenstein Associate Director for Program Development, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Professor, Department of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), UCSF

Cancer Center Program Membership

Molecular Oncology

Phone: (415) 353-9888 (appts)

Box 1705, UCSF
San Francisco, CA 94143-1705

Physician Biography

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Research Summary

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, chaired the GI Committee of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology from 2010 -2016 and was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical Oncology from 2010 - 2015.

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 the advanced colorectal cancer study -- CALGB/SWOG 80405 – that helped define “sidedness”, the phenomenon that colon cancers arising in 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 and the marked increase in colorectal cancer in young adults.

Research Funding

  • August 5, 1999 - May 31, 2023 - Cancer Center Support Grant , Co-Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: P30CA082103
  • December 1, 1974 - March 31, 2009 - General Clinical Research Center , Co-Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: M01RR000079
  • July 28, 1993 - March 31, 2003 - CANCER AND LEUKEMIA GROUP B , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: U10CA060138

Education

Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, BA, 1976, Biological Sciences
University of California San Francisco, MD, 1980, Medicine
University of California San Francisco, Internship, 1981, Internal Medicine
University of California, Davis, Residency, 1985, Internal Medicine
University of California San Francisco, Fellowship, 1987, Hematology/Oncology

Honors & Awards

  • 2010
    Director's Service Award, National Cancer Institute
  • 2011
    Service Excellence Award, Healthnetwork Foundation
  • 2013
    NCCN Board of Producers Award, National Comprehensive Cancer Network
  • 2017
    Heroes of Hope Award, Colon Cancer Alliance
  • 2019
    Giant of Cancer Care in GI Oncology

Selected Publications

  1. Savoie MB, Paciorek A, Van Loon K, Anwar M, Atreya CE, Johnson PC, Kenfield SA, Laffan A, Levin AO, Smith JF, Stanfield D, Venook A, Zhang L, Van Blarigan EL, Rowen T. Sexual function remains persistently low in women after treatment for colorectal cancer and anal squamous cell carcinoma. J Sex Med. 2023 Feb 17.  View on PubMed
  2. Wang L, Langlais C, Kenfield SA, Van Loon K, Laffan A, Atreya CE, Chan JM, Zhang L, Allen IE, Miaskowski C, Fukuoka Y, Meyerhardt JA, Venook AP, Van Blarigan EL. Quality of life among colorectal cancer survivors participating in a pilot randomized controlled trial of a web-based dietary intervention with text messages. Support Care Cancer. 2023 Feb 10; 31(3):155.  View on PubMed
  3. Fidelman N, Atreya CE, Griffith M, Milloy MA, Carnevale J, Cinar P, Venook AP, Van Loon K. Phase I prospective trial of TAS-102 (trifluridine and tipiracil) and radioembolization with 90Y resin microspheres for chemo-refractory colorectal liver metastases. BMC Cancer. 2022 Dec 13; 22(1):1307.  View on PubMed
  4. Lee S, Ma C, Shi Q, Kumar P, Couture F, Kuebler P, Krishnamurthi S, Lewis D, Tan B, Goldberg RM, Venook A, Blanke C, O'Reilly EM, Shields AF, Meyerhardt JA. Potential Mediators of Oxaliplatin-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy From Adjuvant Therapy in Stage III Colon Cancer: Findings From CALGB (Alliance)/SWOG 80702. J Clin Oncol. 2022 Nov 11; JCO2201637.  View on PubMed
  5. Greenberg AL, Tolstykh IV, Van Loon K, Laffan A, Stanfield D, Steiding P, Kenfield SA, Chan JM, Atreya CE, Piawah S, Kidder W, Venook AP, Van Blarigan EL, Varma MG. Association between adherence to the American Cancer Society Nutrition and Physical Activity Guidelines and stool frequency among colon cancer survivors: a cohort study. J Cancer Surviv. 2022 Nov 05.  View on PubMed
  6. Kemeny MM, Zhao F, Forastiere AA, Catalano P, Hamilton SR, Miedema BW, Dawson NA, Weiner LM, Smith BD, Mason BA, Graziano SL, Gilman PB, Venook AP, Pinto HA, Whitehead RP, O'Dwyer PJ, Benson AB. Phase III Prospectively Randomized Trial of Perioperative 5-FU After Curative Resection for Colon Cancer: An Intergroup Trial of the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (E1292). Ann Surg Oncol. 2023 Feb; 30(2):1099-1109.  View on PubMed
  7. Benson AB, Venook AP, Al-Hawary MM, Azad N, Chen YJ, Ciombor KK, Cohen S, Cooper HS, Deming D, Garrido-Laguna I, Grem JL, Gunn A, Hecht JR, Hoffe S, Hubbard J, Hunt S, Jeck W, Johung KL, Kirilcuk N, Krishnamurthi S, Maratt JK, Messersmith WA, Meyerhardt J, Miller ED, Mulcahy MF, Nurkin S, Overman MJ, Parikh A, Patel H, Pedersen K, Saltz L, Schneider C, Shibata D, Skibber JM, Sofocleous CT, Stotsky-Himelfarb E, Tavakkoli A, Willett CG, Gregory K, Gurski L. Rectal Cancer, Version 2.2022, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2022 10; 20(10):1139-1167.  View on PubMed
  8. Spanogiannopoulos P, Kyaw TS, Guthrie BGH, Bradley PH, Lee JV, Melamed J, Malig YNA, Lam KN, Gempis D, Sandy M, Kidder W, Van Blarigan EL, Atreya CE, Venook A, Gerona RR, Goga A, Pollard KS, Turnbaugh PJ. Host and gut bacteria share metabolic pathways for anti-cancer drug metabolism. Nat Microbiol. 2022 10; 7(10):1605-1620.  View on PubMed
  9. Johnson RM, Qu X, Lin CF, Huw LY, Venkatanarayan A, Sokol E, Ou FS, Ihuegbu N, Zill OA, Kabbarah O, Wang L, Bourgon R, de Sousa E Melo F, Bolen C, Daemen A, Venook AP, Innocenti F, Lenz HJ, Bais C. ARID1A mutations confer intrinsic and acquired resistance to cetuximab treatment in colorectal cancer. Nat Commun. 2022 09 19; 13(1):5478.  View on PubMed
  10. Raghav K, Ou FS, Venook AP, Innocenti F, Sun R, Lenz HJ, Kopetz S. Acquired Genomic Alterations on First-Line Chemotherapy With Cetuximab in Advanced Colorectal Cancer: Circulating Tumor DNA Analysis of the CALGB/SWOG-80405 Trial (Alliance). J Clin Oncol. 2023 Jan 20; 41(3):472-478.  View on PubMed
  11. Katz MHG, Shi Q, Meyers J, Herman JM, Chuong M, Wolpin BM, Ahmad S, Marsh R, Schwartz L, Behr S, Frankel WL, Collisson E, Leenstra J, Williams TM, Vaccaro G, Venook A, Meyerhardt JA, O'Reilly EM. Efficacy of Preoperative mFOLFIRINOX vs mFOLFIRINOX Plus Hypofractionated Radiotherapy for Borderline Resectable Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas: The A021501 Phase 2 Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2022 09 01; 8(9):1263-1270.  View on PubMed
  12. Van Blarigan EL, Ma C, Ou FS, Bainter TM, Venook AP, Ng K, Niedzwiecki D, Giovannucci E, Lenz HJ, Polite BN, Hochster HS, Goldberg RM, Mayer RJ, Blanke CD, O'Reilly EM, Ciombor KK, Meyerhardt JA. Dietary fat in relation to all-cause mortality and cancer progression and death among people with metastatic colorectal cancer: Data from CALGB 80405 (Alliance)/SWOG 80405. Int J Cancer. 2023 01 15; 152(2):123-136.  View on PubMed
  13. Nixon AB, Sibley AB, Liu Y, Hatch AJ, Jiang C, Mulkey F, Starr MD, Brady JC, Niedzwiecki D, Venook AP, Baez-Diaz L, Lenz HJ, O'Neil BH, Innocenti F, Meyerhardt JA, O'Reilly EM, Owzar K, Hurwitz HI. Plasma Protein Biomarkers in Advanced or Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy With Bevacizumab or Cetuximab: Results from CALGB 80405 (Alliance). Clin Cancer Res. 2022 07 01; 28(13):2779-2788.  View on PubMed
  14. Kulke MH, Ou FS, Niedzwiecki D, Huebner L, Kunz P, Kennecke HF, Wolin EM, Chan JA, O'Reilly EM, Meyerhardt JA, Venook A. Everolimus with or without bevacizumab in advanced pNET: CALGB 80701 (Alliance). Endocr Relat Cancer. 2022 05 09; 29(6):335-344.  View on PubMed
  15. Innocenti F, Yazdani A, Rashid N, Qu X, Ou FS, Van Buren S, Bertagnolli MM, Kabbarah O, Blanke CD, Venook AP, Lenz HJ, Vincent BG. Tumor Immunogenomic Features Determine Outcomes in Patients with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Treated with Standard-of-Care Combinations of Bevacizumab and Cetuximab. Clin Cancer Res. 2022 04 14; 28(8):1690-1700.  View on PubMed
  16. Lipsyc-Sharf M, Zhang S, Ou FS, Ma C, McCleary NJ, Niedzwiecki D, Chang IW, Lenz HJ, Blanke CD, Piawah S, Van Loon K, Bainter TM, Venook AP, Mayer RJ, Fuchs CS, Innocenti F, Nixon AB, Goldberg R, O'Reilly EM, Meyerhardt JA, Ng K. Survival in Young-Onset Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Findings From Cancer and Leukemia Group B (Alliance)/SWOG 80405. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2022 03 08; 114(3):427-435.  View on PubMed
  17. Venook AP. Colorectal Cancer Surveillance With Circulating Tumor DNA Assay. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 03 01; 5(3):e221100.  View on PubMed
  18. Chan H, Van Loon K, Kenfield SA, Chan JM, Mitchell E, Zhang L, Paciorek A, Joseph G, Laffan A, Atreya C, Fukuoka Y, Miaskowski C, Meyerhardt JA, Venook AP, Van Blarigan EL. Quality of life of colorectal cancer survivors participating in a pilot randomized controlled trial of physical activity trackers and daily text messages. Support Care Cancer. 2022 May; 30(5):4557-4564.  View on PubMed
  19. Van Blarigan EL, Ou FS, Bainter TM, Fuchs CS, Niedzwiecki D, Zhang S, Saltz LB, Mayer RJ, Hantel A, Benson AB, Atienza D, Messino M, Kindler HL, Venook AP, Ogino S, Sanoff HK, Giovannucci EL, Ng K, Meyerhardt JA. Associations Between Unprocessed Red Meat and Processed Meat With Risk of Recurrence and Mortality in Patients With Stage III Colon Cancer. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 02 01; 5(2):e220145.  View on PubMed
  20. Yothers G, Venook AP, Oki E, Niedzwiecki D, Lin Y, Crager MR, Chao C, Baehner FL, Wolmark N, Yoshino T. Patient-specific meta-analysis of 12-gene colon cancer recurrence score validation studies for recurrence risk assessment after surgery with or without 5FU and oxaliplatin. J Gastrointest Oncol. 2022 Feb; 13(1):126-136.  View on PubMed

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