Frederick M. Dirbas

Clinical Focus

• Cancer> Breast Cancer
• Cancer> Breast Cancer> Accelerated Breast Radiation
• General Surgery
• Accelerated Breast Radiation
• MRI in Breast Cancer Staging

Administrative Appointments

• Co-Leader, Breast Cancer Clinical Research Group, Stanford Cancer Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Hospital (2011 - present)
• Leader, Breast Disease Management Group (DMG), Stanford Cancer Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Hospital (2010 - present)
• Director, Clinical Care Sub-team, Breast Disease Management Group, Stanford Cancer Center (2006 - 2010)

Honors and Awards

• Best Doctors in America, Best Doctors, Inc. (2011-2012)
• America's Top Surgeons, Consumers' Research Council of America (2010)
• America's Top Oncologists, Consumers' Research Council of America (2009)
• Best Doctors in America, Best Doctors, Inc. (2010-2011)
• Best Doctors in America, Best Doctors, Inc. (2009-2010)

Professional Education

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Surgery

Community and International Work

• Susan G. Komen for the Cure Advisory Council 2011- present, San Francisco 
• Expert Reviewer Program, Medical Board of California 
• Susan G. Komen for the Cure San Francisco Affiliate 2004-2011, San Francisco 
• Breast Cancer Connections 2011 - present, Palo Alto 

Internet Links

• Dirbas Clinical Research Group

Current Research Interests

My research interests are focused on minimizing the impact of breast cancer from a diagnostic and therapuetic standpoint. Breast MRI is a powerful tool to facilitate the screening for and staging of breast cancer, and can be valuable adjunct to guide breast surgery. Oncoplastic surgical techniques optimize cosmesis after breast cancer surgery. Accelerated radiotherapy after lumpectomy decreases radiotherapy treatment times from 6 weeks to just 1 to 5 days.

Clinical Trials

• Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation Following Lumpectomy for Breast Cancer No longer recruiting
• Surgery to Remove the Sentinel Lymph Node and Axillary Lymph Nodes After Chemotherapy in Treating Women With Stage II, Stage IIIA, or Stage IIIB Breast Cancer Suspended
• Phase II Anastrozole and ZD6474 in Neoadjuvant Treatment of Postmenopausal Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer Terminated
• Survey of Optical Measures of Breast Tissue in the Clinic Completed

Publications

• Breast Surgical Techniques and Interdisciplinary Management Frederick M. Dirbas, Carol Scott-Conner. Breast Surgical Techniques and Interdisciplinary Management. 2011 Springer
• Accelerated partial breast irradiation: where do we stand? Dirbas FM, J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2009; 7 (2): 215-25
• Streamlining clinical breast examination. Goodson WH, Grissom NA, Moore DH, Dirbas FM. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2005; 97 (19): 1476-7
• The evolution of accelerated, partial breast irradiation as a potential treatment option for women with newly diagnosed breast cancer considering breast conservation. Dirbas FM, Jeffrey SS, Goffinet DR. Cancer Biother Radiopharm. 2004; 19 (6): 673-705
• Toward MR-guided high intensity focused ultrasound for presurgical localization: Focused ultrasound lesions in cadaveric breast tissue. Bitton RR, Kaye E, Dirbas FM, Daniel BL, Pauly KB. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2011