UCSF CER - Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center (Symposium 2013), Kathryn Phillips

1. Health Services
Research, Comparative Effectiveness
Research, & Translational Science
(T2) in the UCSF Helen Diller Family
Comprehensive Cancer Center
Kathryn Phillips

2. One of best cancer centers in country
$246M in cancer funding at UCSF
370 members

3. $100,000 Cancer
Drugs, Ineffective $50,000
Back
Operations, Unnecessary MRI
Scans Will Bankrupt America Prostate Cancer Screening Is
Risky And Ineffective: PSA Test
May Lose Insurance Coverage
Was the FDA Right to Declare
Avastin Ineffective for Breast
Cancer?

4. PCORI will invest more than $3
billion between now and 2019
in outcomes research
PCORI priorities:
- Tx of DCIS
- Biomarkers for prevention of breast cancer

5. CER Related Activities
• Cancer Interest Lunch Breakout 12:30-1:30,
Rm 384
• KP Funded through 5 year renewal grant as
liaison for CER
– Leverage resources and enhance population
sciences program
– Facilitate connections across & within programs
• Pilot awards
• Cancer Center membership (Kate Shumate)