News & Events: Jasmine M. Wong, M.D.

Exome, an online journal of biotech, healthcare, and life sciences, reports on a new clinical study in breast cancer patients led by Jasmine M. Wong, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery in the Division of General Surgery, Section of Breastcare Surgery. The clinical trial at UCSF will be evaluating, AVB-620, a diagnostic agent that helps surgeons differentiate cancerous tissue from healthy tissue in real time. San Diego's Avelas Biosciences says today that UC San Francisco has begun enrolling women who face breast cancer surgery in a clinical trial for AVB-620, a diagnostic agent [...]

The "shared decision-making" model fosters a higher level of collaboration between doctors and the people they treat. Rose Gutierrez has a big decision to make. Gutierrez, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last spring, had surgery and 10 weeks of chemotherapy. But the cancer is still there. Now Jasmine Wong (pictured right), a surgeon at the University of California, San Francisco, is explaining the choices—Gutierrez can either have another lumpectomy followed by radiation, or she can get a total mastectomy. "I think both options are reasonable," Wong said. "It's just a matter of how [...]