Andrew Parsa
Barbara Hammerman, 47, San Mateo's first female police lieutenant, has terminal brain cancer and is pioneering again, this time volunteering for an experimental brain tumor treatment at UCSF that will hopefully save her life. Andrew Parsa. MD, PhD, first removed a softball-sized glioblastoma from her skull, removed proteins from the tumor then injected them back into her tumor. Parsa explained that the injected proteins invoke an immune response in the patient that will shrink the tumor.
Parsa is assistant professor in residence of neurological surgery and principal investigator at the Brain Tumor Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Brain Tumor Research Center (BTRC)
