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Robert E. Goldsby, M.D.

Pediatric cancer specialist

Dr. Robert E. Goldsby is a pediatric cancer specialist at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital and director of the Survivors of Childhood Cancer Program, which provides care and long-term follow-up of patients who have survived a childhood cancer. One of his particular areas of interest is the treatment of young patients with high-risk sarcomas.

Goldsby earned a medical degree at the University of Vermont at Burlington, completed a pediatric internship and residency at Oakland Children's Hospital and a pediatric hematology and oncology fellowship at Primary Children's Medical Center at the University of Utah. He has earned numerous awards and grants including an American Cancer Society Grant and Hope Street Kids Grant. Goldsby is also an assistant professor of pediatrics at UCSF.

Clinics

Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
505 Parnassus Ave., Sixth Floor, Room M-659
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 476-2188

BMT Clinic at the Pediatric Treatment Center
400 Parnassus Ave., Suite A101
San Francisco, CA 94143-0134
Phone: (415) 353-2584

Oncology Clinic
400 Parnassus Ave., Suite 101
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 476-3831

Conditions & Treatments

More about Robert E. Goldsby

Education

University of Vermont 1991

Residencies

Children's Hospital, Oakland, 1994

Fellowships

University of Utah, 1997

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Goldsby RE, Fan TM, Villaluna D, Wagner LM, Isakoff MS, Meyer J, Lor Randall R, Lee S, Kim G, Bernstein M, Gorlick R, Krailo M, Marina N. Feasibility and dose discovery analysis of zoledronic acid with concurrent chemotherapy in the treatment of newly diagnosed metastatic osteosarcoma: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. Eur J Cancer. 2013 Jul; 49(10):2384-91.
  2. Karski EE, Matthay KK, Neuhaus JM, Goldsby RE, Dubois SG. Characteristics and outcomes of patients with Ewing sarcoma over 40 years of age at diagnosis. Cancer Epidemiol. 2013 Feb; 37(1):29-33.
  3. Coccia PF, Altman J, Bhatia S, Borinstein SC, Flynn J, George S, Goldsby R, Hayashi R, Huang MS, Johnson RH, Beaupin LK, Link MP, Oeffinger KC, Orr KM, Pappo AS, Reed D, Spraker HL, Thomas DA, von Mehren M, Wechsler DS, Whelan KF, Zebrack BJ, Sundar H, Shead DA. Adolescent and young adult oncology. Clinical practice guidelines in oncology. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2012 Sep; 10(9):1112-50.
  4. Applebaum MA, Goldsby R, Neuhaus J, Dubois SG. Clinical features and outcomes in patients with secondary Ewing sarcoma. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2013 Apr; 60(4):611-5.
  5. Applebaum MA, Sambrano E, Lee S, Goldsby R, Matthay KK, DuBois SG. Evaluation of plasma annexin V levels in children and young adults with solid tumors. Int J Biol Markers. 2012 Apr-Jun; 27(2):e164-6.
  6. Kan L, Kitterman JA, Procissi D, Chakkalakal S, Peng CY, McGuire TL, Goldsby RE, Pignolo RJ, Shore EM, Kaplan FS, Kessler JA. CNS demyelination in fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva. J Neurol. 2012 Dec; 259(12):2644-55.
  7. Porzig A, Matthay KK, Dubois S, Pampaloni M, Damon L, Hawkins R, Goldsby R, Hollinger F, Fitzgerald P. Proteinuria in metastatic pheochromocytoma is associated with an increased risk of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, spontaneously or after therapy with 131I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine (131I-MIBG). Horm Metab Res. 2012 Jun; 44(7):539-42.
  8. Applebaum MA, Goldsby R, Neuhaus J, DuBois SG. Clinical features and outcomes in patients with Ewing sarcoma and regional lymph node involvement. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2012 Oct; 59(4):617-20.
  9. Sharib JM, Cyrus J, Horvai A, Gray Hazard FK, Neuhaus J, Matthay KK, Goldsby R, Marina N, DuBois SG. Predictors of acute chemotherapy-associated toxicity in patients with Ewing sarcoma. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2012 Oct; 59(4):611-6.
  10. Gawande RS, Khurana A, Messing S, Zhang D, Castañeda RT, Goldsby RE, Hawkins RA, Daldrup-Link HE. Differentiation of normal thymus from anterior mediastinal lymphoma and lymphoma recurrence at pediatric PET/CT. Radiology. 2012 Feb; 262(2):613-22.
  11. DuBois SG, Goldsby R, Segal M, Woo J, Copren K, Kane JP, Pullinger CR, Matthay KK, Witte J, Lessnick SL, Robison LL, Bhatia S, Strong LC. Evaluation of polymorphisms in EWSR1 and risk of Ewing sarcoma: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2012 Jul 15; 59(1):52-6.
  12. Goldsby R, Chen Y, Raber S, Li L, Diefenbach K, Shnorhavorian M, Kadan-Lottick N, Kastrinos F, Yasui Y, Stovall M, Oeffinger K, Sklar C, Armstrong GT, Robison LL, Diller L. Survivors of childhood cancer have increased risk of gastrointestinal complications later in life. Gastroenterology. 2011 May; 140(5):1464-71.e1.
  13. DuBois SG, Stempak D, Wu B, Mokhtari RB, Nayar R, Janeway KA, Goldsby R, Grier HE, Baruchel S. Circulating endothelial cells and circulating endothelial precursor cells in patients with osteosarcoma. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2012 Feb; 58(2):181-4.
  14. Applebaum MA, Worch J, Matthay KK, Goldsby R, Neuhaus J, West DC, Dubois SG. Clinical features and outcomes in patients with extraskeletal Ewing sarcoma. Cancer. 2011 Jul 1; 117(13):3027-32.
  15. Worch J, Cyrus J, Goldsby R, Matthay KK, Neuhaus J, DuBois SG. Racial differences in the incidence of mesenchymal tumors associated with EWSR1 translocation. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011 Mar; 20(3):449-53.
  16. Burk TF, Horvai AE, Gottschalk AR, Leong SP, Kashani-Sabet M, Goldsby RE, Law J, O'Donnell RJ. Patellar metastatic melanoma in a 13-year-old boy. Am J Orthop (Belle Mead NJ). 2010 Dec; 39(12):582-6.
  17. Virayavanich W, Singh R, O'Donnell RJ, Horvai AE, Goldsby RE, Link TM. Osteoid osteoma of the femur in a 7-month-old infant treated with radiofrequency ablation. Skeletal Radiol. 2010 Nov; 39(11):1145-9.
  18. Worch J, Matthay KK, Neuhaus J, Goldsby R, DuBois SG. Osteosarcoma in children 5 years of age or younger at initial diagnosis. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2010 Aug; 55(2):285-9.
  19. Jha P, Frölich AM, McCarville B, Navarro OM, Babyn P, Goldsby R, Daldrup-Link H. Unusual association of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma with pancreatic metastasis: emerging role of PET-CT in tumor staging. Pediatr Radiol. 2010 Aug; 40(8):1380-6.
  20. Worch J, Matthay KK, Neuhaus J, Goldsby R, DuBois SG. Ethnic and racial differences in patients with Ewing sarcoma. Cancer. 2010 Feb 15; 116(4):983-8.

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