CELESTIA S. HIGANO, MD

Professor
Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Departments of Oncology & Urology
School of Medicine
University of Washington

Specialty / Expertise

Prostate cancer

Research Interests

Intermittent androgen suppression and the effects of androgen deprivation on the male mind and body

Training

Dr. Higano received her MD from University of Massachusetts Worcester, Massachusetts. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota. She was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Hematology/Oncology at the University of Washington

Selected Publications:

A Double-Blind Randomized Crossover Study of Oral Thalidomide Versus Placebo for Androgen Dependent Prostate Cancer Treated With Intermittent Androgen Ablation. Figg WD, Hussain MH, Gulley JL, Arlen PM, Aragon-Ching JB, Petrylak DP, Higano CS, Steinberg SM, Chatta GS, Parnes H, Wright JJ, Sartor O, Dahut WL. J Urol. 2009 Jan 22.
[ PubMed Abstract]

Multimarker Circulating DNA Assay for Assessing Blood of Prostate Cancer Patients. Sunami E, Shinozaki M, Higano CS, Wollman R, Dorff TB, Tucker SJ, Martinez SR, Singer FR, Hoon DS. Clin Chem. 2009 Jan 8.
[ PubMed Abstract]

Conventional treatments of localized prostate cancer. Zerbib M, Zelefsky MJ, Higano CS, Carroll PR. Urology. 2008 Dec;72(6 Suppl):S25-35.
[ PubMed Abstract]

 

Curriculum Vitae [130K PDF*]

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