Michael Cheng, MD

Title(s)Associate Professor, Medicine
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    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterMedical Oncology
    University of California, San FranciscoInternal Medicine
    University of California, Los AngelesMDMedicine
    University of California, BerkeleyBAMolecular and Cell Biology
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    Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO Career Development Award
    PCF Young Investigator Award
    Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO Merit Award
    Alpha Omega Alpha
    Phi Beta Kappa

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    Dr. Michael L. Cheng is an academic medical oncologist and Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he leads clinical and translational research focused on advancing discoveries in cancer genomics and developing improved therapies for thoracic malignancies, especially Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC). Dr. Cheng received his M.D. from the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, where he graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha honors. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at UCSF and his fellowship in Medical Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Prior to returning to UCSF, Dr. Cheng was an Assistant Professor at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cheng strives to provide individualized, compassionate care with a focus on precision oncology, and continues to be inspired by the tangible and substantial patient benefit driven by research advances. Dr. Cheng sees patients at UCSF Health, and his clinic is located in the Bakar Precision Cancer Medicine Building on the UCSF Mission Bay campus.

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    1. A Translational Study of the ATR Inhibitor Berzosertib as Monotherapy in Four Molecularly Defined Cohorts of Advanced Solid Tumors. Clin Cancer Res. 2025 Jan 06; 31(1):35-44. Cote GM, Kochupurakkal BS, Do K, Bullock A, Cheng ML, Muzikansky A, McLoughlin DE, Cleary JM, Gao X, Parikh A, Park JC, Weekes CD, Yeku O, Zou L, Shapiro GI. PMID: 39453756.
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    2. Associations of frailty with survival, hospitalization, functional decline, and toxicity among older adults with advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Oncologist. 2024 Dec 09. Lee HJ, Boscardin J, Walter LC, Smith AK, Cohen HJ, Giri S, Williams GR, Presley CJ, Singhal S, Huang LW, Velazquez AI, Gubens MA, Blakely CM, Mulvey CK, Cheng ML, Sakoda LC, Kushi LH, Quesenberry C, Liu R, Fleszar-Pavlovic S, Eskandar C, Cutler E, Mercurio AM, Wong ML. PMID: 39657913.
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    3. Correction to: A Practical Review of Encorafenib and Binimetinib Therapy Management in Patients with BRAF V600EMutant Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Adv Ther. 2024 Jul; 41(7):3016. Baik C, Cheng ML, Dietrich M, Gray JE, Karim NA. PMID: 38833145; PMCID: PMC11213753.
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    4. A Practical Review of Encorafenib and Binimetinib Therapy Management in Patients with BRAF V600E-Mutant Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Adv Ther. 2024 Jul; 41(7):2586-2605. Baik C, Cheng ML, Dietrich M, Gray JE, Karim NA. PMID: 38698170; PMCID: PMC11213720.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    5. Immune Modulation with RANKL Blockade through Denosumab Treatment in Patients with Cancer. Cancer Immunol Res. 2024 Apr 02; 12(4):453-461. Chang H, Marquez J, Chen BK, Kim DM, Cheng ML, Liu EV, Yang H, Zhang L, Sinha M, Cheung A, Kwek SS, Chow ED, Bridge M, Aggarwal RR, Friedlander TW, Small EJ, Anderson M, Fong L. PMID: 38276989; PMCID: PMC10993769.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    6. Convergent evolution of BRCA2 reversion mutations under therapeutic pressure by PARP inhibition and platinum chemotherapy. NPJ Precis Oncol. 2024 Feb 14; 8(1):34. Walmsley CS, Jonsson P, Cheng ML, McBride S, Kaeser C, Vargas HA, Laudone V, Taylor BS, Kappagantula R, Baez P, Richards AL, Noronha AM, Perera D, Berger M, Solit DB, Iacobuzio-Donahue CA, Scher HI, Donoghue MTA, Abida W, Schram AM. PMID: 38355834; PMCID: PMC10866935.
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    7. Initial Chemotherapy for Locally Advanced and Metastatic NUT Carcinoma. J Thorac Oncol. 2024 May; 19(5):829-838. Luo J, Sanchez M, Lee E, Hertzler H, Luong N, Mazzola E, Finstein B, Tamen R, Brisbane G, Nguyen T, Paik PK, Chaft JE, Cheng ML, Khalil H, Piha-Paul SA, Sholl LM, Nishino M, Jänne PA, DuBois SG, Hanna GJ, Shapiro GI, French CA. PMID: 38154515; PMCID: PMC11081848.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 2     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    8. Single-Agent Divarasib (GDC-6036) in Solid Tumors with a KRAS G12C Mutation. N Engl J Med. 2023 Aug 24; 389(8):710-721. Sacher A, LoRusso P, Patel MR, Miller WH, Garralda E, Forster MD, Santoro A, Falcon A, Kim TW, Paz-Ares L, Bowyer S, de Miguel M, Han SW, Krebs MG, Lee JS, Cheng ML, Arbour K, Massarelli E, Choi Y, Shi Z, Mandlekar S, Lin MT, Royer-Joo S, Chang J, Dharia NV, Schutzman JL, Desai J, GO42144 Investigator and Study Group. PMID: 37611121.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 60     Fields:    Translation:HumansCTClinical Trials
    9. Clinicopathologic, Genomic, and Immunophenotypic Landscape of ATM Mutations in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2023 07 05; 29(13):2540-2550. Ricciuti B, Elkrief A, Alessi J, Wang X, Li Y, Gupta H, Muldoon DM, Bertram AA, Pecci F, Lamberti G, Di Federico A, Barrichello A, Vaz VR, Gandhi M, Lee E, Shapiro GI, Park H, Nishino M, Lindsay J, Felt KD, Sharma B, Cherniack AD, Rodig S, Gomez DR, Shaverdian N, Rakaee M, Bandlamudi C, Ladanyi M, Janne PA, Schoenfeld AJ, Sholl LM, Awad MM, Cheng ML. PMID: 37097610; PMCID: PMC11031845.
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    10. Exceptional Response to Bromodomain and Extraterminal Domain Inhibitor Therapy With BMS-986158 in BRD4-NUTM1 NUT Carcinoma Harboring a BRD4 Splice Site Mutation. JCO Precis Oncol. 2023 06; 7:e2200633. Cheng ML, Huang Y, Luong N, LoPiccolo J, Nishino M, Sholl LM, Chirieac LR, Santucci AD, Rabin MS, Jänne PA, Coker S, Diamond JR, Hilton J, Shapiro GI, French CA. PMID: 37384867; PMCID: PMC10581614.
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    11. Response to MEK Inhibitor Therapy in MAP2K1 (MEK1) K57N Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer and Genomic Landscape of MAP2K1 Mutations in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. JCO Precis Oncol. 2022 11; 6:e2200382. Cheng ML, Lee JK, Kumar R, Klein H, Raskina K, Schrock AB, Michael KS, Mazor T, Cerami E, Oxnard GR, Liu D, Beltran H, Sholl LM, Nishino M, Jänne PA. PMID: 36455195.
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    12. BMS-986158, a Small Molecule Inhibitor of the Bromodomain and Extraterminal Domain Proteins, in Patients with Selected Advanced Solid Tumors: Results from a Phase 1/2a Trial. Cancers (Basel). 2022 Aug 23; 14(17). Hilton J, Cristea M, Postel-Vinay S, Baldini C, Voskoboynik M, Edenfield W, Shapiro GI, Cheng ML, Vuky J, Corr B, Das S, Apfel A, Xu K, Kozicki M, Ünsal-Kaçmaz K, Hammell A, Wang G, Ravindran P, Kollia G, Esposito O, Coker S, Diamond JR. PMID: 36077617; PMCID: PMC9454848.
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    13. Lipid pneumonia associated with mineral oil use presenting as fluorine-18-fluorodeoxy-D-glucose-avid lung mass. JTCVS Tech. 2022 Oct; 15:192-194. Cheng ML, Thomas V, Vaz N, Hammer MM, Nishino M, Vargas SO, Khalil HA. PMID: 36276695; PMCID: PMC9579874.
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    14. Report of the First International Symposium on NUT Carcinoma. Clin Cancer Res. 2022 06 13; 28(12):2493-2505. French CA, Cheng ML, Hanna GJ, DuBois SG, Chau NG, Hann CL, Storck S, Salgia R, Trucco M, Tseng J, Stathis A, Piekarz R, Lauer UM, Massard C, Bennett K, Coker S, Tontsch-Grunt U, Sos ML, Liao S, Wu CJ, Polyak K, Piha-Paul SA, Shapiro GI. PMID: 35417004; PMCID: PMC9197941.
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    15. A Phase 2 Study of Lorlatinib in Patients With ROS1-Rearranged Lung Cancer With Brain-Only Progression on Crizotinib. JTO Clin Res Rep. 2022 Jul; 3(7):100347. Schneider JL, Muzikansky A, Lin JJ, Krueger EA, Lennes IT, Jacobson JO, Cheng M, Heist RS, Piotrowska Z, Gainor JF, Shaw AT, Dagogo-Jack I. PMID: 35815322; PMCID: PMC9257415.
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    16. Plasma cfDNA Genotyping in Hospitalized Patients With Suspected Metastatic NSCLC. JCO Precis Oncol. 2021 11; 5:726-732. Cheng ML, Milan MSD, Tamen RM, Bertram AA, Michael KS, Ricciuti B, Kehl KL, Awad MM, Sholl LM, Paweletz CP, Jänne PA. PMID: 34994618.
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    17. SMARCA4 and Other SWItch/Sucrose NonFermentable Family Genomic Alterations in NSCLC: Clinicopathologic Characteristics and Outcomes to Immune Checkpoint Inhibition. J Thorac Oncol. 2021 07; 16(7):1176-1187. Alessi JV, Ricciuti B, Spurr LF, Gupta H, Li YY, Glass C, Nishino M, Cherniack AD, Lindsay J, Sharma B, Felt KD, Rodig SJ, Cheng ML, Sholl LM, Awad MM. PMID: 33845210.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 48     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    18. Tumor fraction-guided cell-free DNA profiling in metastatic solid tumor patients. Genome Med. 2021 05 31; 13(1):96. Tsui DWY, Cheng ML, Shady M, Yang JL, Stephens D, Won H, Srinivasan P, Huberman K, Meng F, Jing X, Patel J, Hasan M, Johnson I, Gedvilaite E, Houck-Loomis B, Socci ND, Selcuklu SD, Seshan VE, Zhang H, Chakravarty D, Zehir A, Benayed R, Arcila M, Ladanyi M, Funt SA, Feldman DR, Li BT, Razavi P, Rosenberg J, Bajorin D, Iyer G, Abida W, Scher HI, Rathkopf D, Viale A, Berger MF, Solit DB. PMID: 34059130; PMCID: PMC8165771.
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    19. Early plasma circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) changes predict response to first-line pembrolizumab-based therapy in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). J Immunother Cancer. 2021 03; 9(3). Ricciuti B, Jones G, Severgnini M, Alessi JV, Recondo G, Lawrence M, Forshew T, Lydon C, Nishino M, Cheng M, Awad M. PMID: 33771889; PMCID: PMC7996662.
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    20. Plasma ctDNA Response Is an Early Marker of Treatment Effect in Advanced NSCLC. JCO Precis Oncol. 2021; 5. Cheng ML, Lau CJ, Milan MSD, Supplee JG, Riess JW, Bradbury PA, Jänne PA, Oxnard GR, Paweletz CP. PMID: 34250387; PMCID: PMC8232122.
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    21. Circulating tumor DNA in advanced solid tumors: Clinical relevance and future directions. CA Cancer J Clin. 2021 03; 71(2):176-190. Cheng ML, Pectasides E, Hanna GJ, Parsons HA, Choudhury AD, Oxnard GR. PMID: 33165928.
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    22. Germ Cell Tumor Molecular Heterogeneity Revealed Through Analysis of Primary and Metastasis Pairs. JCO Precis Oncol. 2020; 4. Cheng ML, Donoghue MTA, Audenet F, Wong NC, Pietzak EJ, Bielski CM, Isharwal S, Iyer G, Funt S, Bagrodia A, Bajorin DF, Reuter VE, Eng J, Joseph G, Bourque C, Bromberg M, Ling L, Selcuklu SD, Arcila ME, Tsui DWY, Zehir A, Viale A, Berger MF, Bosl GJ, Sheinfeld J, Van Allen E, Taylor BS, Al-Ahmadie H, Solit DB, Feldman DR. PMID: 33163850; PMCID: PMC7608584.
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    23. Turnaround Time of Plasma Next-Generation Sequencing in Thoracic Oncology Patients: A Quality Improvement Analysis. JCO Precis Oncol. 2020; 4. Lee Y, Clark EW, Milan MSD, Champagne C, Michael KS, Awad MM, Barbie DA, Cheng ML, Kehl KL, Marcoux JP, Rabin MS, Rotow JK, Sands JM, Jänne PA, Oxnard GR. PMID: 33015530; PMCID: PMC7529535.
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    24. Impact of DNA Damage Response and Repair (DDR) Gene Mutations on Efficacy of PD-(L)1 Immune Checkpoint Inhibition in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2020 08 01; 26(15):4135-4142. Ricciuti B, Recondo G, Spurr LF, Li YY, Lamberti G, Venkatraman D, Umeton R, Cherniack AD, Nishino M, Sholl LM, Shapiro GI, Awad MM, Cheng ML. PMID: 32332016.
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    25. Absolute lymphocyte count as a prognostic biomarker for overall survival in patients with advanced melanoma treated with ipilimumab. Melanoma Res. 2020 02; 30(1):71-75. Postow MA, Chasalow SD, Kuk D, Panageas KS, Cheng ML, Yuan J, Wolchok JD. PMID: 31425479; PMCID: PMC7485135.
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    26. Next-generation sequencing informs diagnosis and identifies unexpected therapeutic targets in lung squamous cell carcinomas. Lung Cancer. 2020 02; 140:35-41. Sands JM, Nguyen T, Shivdasani P, Sacher AG, Cheng ML, Alden RS, Jänne PA, Kuo FC, Oxnard GR, Sholl LM. PMID: 31855703.
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    27. Tumour lineage shapes BRCA-mediated phenotypes. Nature. 2019 07; 571(7766):576-579. Jonsson P, Bandlamudi C, Cheng ML, Srinivasan P, Chavan SS, Friedman ND, Rosen EY, Richards AL, Bouvier N, Selcuklu SD, Bielski CM, Abida W, Mandelker D, Birsoy O, Zhang L, Zehir A, Donoghue MTA, Baselga J, Offit K, Scher HI, O'Reilly EM, Stadler ZK, Schultz N, Socci ND, Viale A, Ladanyi M, Robson ME, Hyman DM, Berger MF, Solit DB, Taylor BS. PMID: 31292550; PMCID: PMC7048239.
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    28. Analysis of the Prevalence of Microsatellite Instability in Prostate Cancer and Response to Immune Checkpoint Blockade. JAMA Oncol. 2019 Apr 01; 5(4):471-478. Abida W, Cheng ML, Armenia J, Middha S, Autio KA, Vargas HA, Rathkopf D, Morris MJ, Danila DC, Slovin SF, Carbone E, Barnett ES, Hullings M, Hechtman JF, Zehir A, Shia J, Jonsson P, Stadler ZK, Srinivasan P, Laudone VP, Reuter V, Wolchok JD, Socci ND, Taylor BS, Berger MF, Kantoff PW, Sawyers CL, Schultz N, Solit DB, Gopalan A, Scher HI. PMID: 30589920; PMCID: PMC6459218.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 271     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    29. The Genomic Landscape of Endocrine-Resistant Advanced Breast Cancers. Cancer Cell. 2018 09 10; 34(3):427-438.e6. Razavi P, Chang MT, Xu G, Bandlamudi C, Ross DS, Vasan N, Cai Y, Bielski CM, Donoghue MTA, Jonsson P, Penson A, Shen R, Pareja F, Kundra R, Middha S, Cheng ML, Zehir A, Kandoth C, Patel R, Huberman K, Smyth LM, Jhaveri K, Modi S, Traina TA, Dang C, Zhang W, Weigelt B, Li BT, Ladanyi M, Hyman DM, Schultz N, Robson ME, Hudis C, Brogi E, Viale A, Norton L, Dickler MN, Berger MF, Iacobuzio-Donahue CA, Chandarlapaty S, Scaltriti M, Reis-Filho JS, Solit DB, Taylor BS, Baselga J. PMID: 30205045; PMCID: PMC6327853.
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    30. Does TMB Impact the Effectiveness of TKIs in EGFR-Mutant NSCLC? Clin Cancer Res. 2019 02 01; 25(3):899-900. Cheng ML, Oxnard GR. PMID: 30190372; PMCID: PMC6359945.
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    31. Clinical tumour sequencing for precision oncology: time for a universal strategy. Nat Rev Cancer. 2018 09; 18(9):527-528. Cheng ML, Berger MF, Hyman DM, Solit DB. PMID: 30030494; PMCID: PMC6618305.
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    32. Novel biomarkers in bladder cancer. Urol Oncol. 2018 03; 36(3):115-119. Cheng ML, Iyer G. PMID: 29472156.
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    33. Opportunities and Challenges in Genomic Sequencing for Precision Cancer Care. Ann Intern Med. 2018 02 06; 168(3):221-222. Cheng ML, Solit DB. PMID: 29310131; PMCID: PMC6659420.
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    34. The incidence of oesophageal cancer in Eastern Africa: identification of a new geographic hot spot? Cancer Epidemiol. 2015 Apr; 39(2):143-9. Cheng ML, Zhang L, Borok M, Chokunonga E, Dzamamala C, Korir A, Wabinga HR, Hiatt RA, Parkin DM, Van Loon K. PMID: 25662402; PMCID: PMC4470609.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 38     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    35. Beyond sipuleucel-T: immune approaches to treating prostate cancer. Curr Treat Options Oncol. 2014 Mar; 15(1):115-26. Cheng ML, Fong L. PMID: 24402184; PMCID: PMC4523381.
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    36. Effects of RANKL-Targeted Therapy in Immunity and Cancer. Front Oncol. 2014 Jan 07; 3:329. Cheng ML, Fong L. PMID: 24432249; PMCID: PMC3882875.
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    37. Abiraterone acetate for the treatment of prostate cancer. Expert Opin Pharmacother. 2013 Jan; 14(1):91-6. Ryan CJ, Cheng ML. PMID: 23199349.
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    38. Coccidioidal endophthalmitis in immunocompetent person, California, USA. Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 Jun; 18(6):1015-6. Cheng ML, Leibowitz M, Ha E. PMID: 22608196; PMCID: PMC3358163.
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