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 Beth Crawford, MS Beth Crawford is currently the Director of Clinical Services for the Cancer Risk Program (UCSF CRP) at UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center. Beth has been involved in the development of the UCSF CRP from it's inception to it's current role as an integral part of the services that the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center. The CRP provides risk assessment and genetic counseling to cancer patients and their at risk relatives in the greater northern California area. The UCSF CRP sees more than 600 families per year at hereditary risk for different patterns of cancer including: breast, ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancers associated with the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, colon and uterine and pancreatic cancers associated with MLH1 and MSH2 genes, and many other cancer patterns caused by different genes. Beth spent 4 years at UCSF in the Medical Genetics program as a genetic counselor and 4 years as academic head of the UC Berkeley Masters Degree Program for Genetic Counselors. She has a Masters Degree from UC Berkeley in Genetic Counseling and BS in Biology from the University of Hawaii. Beth's research interests are in decision making in high-risk families and quantitative systems for estimating the risk for patients with families that have extensive breast and ovarian cancer history. She counsels many families and helps them to assimilate their cancer risk, pros and cons of genetic testing, surveillance recommendations, and risk reduction surgeries and other strategies.
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