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Laura Esserman is a surgeon and breast cancer oncology specialist who practices at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.
Esserman is the director of the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center. She believes that some patients with a type of breast cancer, ductal carcinoma in situ, should be placed on active surveillance instead of undergoing a biopsy, mastectomy or lumpectomy.
Esserman attended college at Harvard University and completed medical school Stanford University. After finishing a postdoctoral fellowship in breast oncology at Stanford and earning a master's degree at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Esserman joined the faculty at UCSF Medical Center in 1993.
Esserman was named in TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in 2016.
