Ping Chi Named to Geoffrey Beene Junior Faculty Chair
Ping Chi has been named an incumbent of a Geoffrey Beene Junior Faculty Chair. Dr. Chi is a physician-scientist and a board-certified medical oncologist who cares for patients with soft tissue and bone sarcomas and melanomas.
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Surgery’s Vital Role in Treating CancerIn addition to his administrative responsibilities, Peter T. Scardino, Chair of the Department of Surgery, specializes in the surgical treatment of prostate cancer. In 1998, he was recruited by Memorial Sloan-Kettering to head the program in urology and further develop the prostate cancer program. In 2006, Dr. Scardino was appointed to his present position. Here, he discusses the vital role surgery plays in current cancer treatment.
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Additional Surgery after Lumpectomy is Not a Good Indicator of the Quality of Breast Cancer Surgery, Cautions Breast Surgeon About one in four women who have been treated with breast-conserving surgery (BCS) for breast cancer eventually have a second round of surgery, called reexcision, to remove additional tissue.
In a study published in the February 1 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), researchers suggest that monitoring how often such reexcision procedures are performed at different hospitals or by individual surgeons might be a way to assess the quality of surgical treatment these women receive.
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Bone Scan Index May Help Determine Response to Prostate Cancer Treatment.Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering have shown the usefulness of a scale called the Bone Scan Index (BSI) for determining whether some prostate cancer patients are responding to therapy, according to a recently published study online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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An Interview with Hans-Guido WendelGrowing up in Aachen, a small city in western Germany famous for its hot springs, I was not especially focused on becoming a biological scientist. I was interested in many other things, including literature and physics. As I completed my undergraduate degree, medicine seemed interesting and varied enough — it involved science, but also patient contact. I enrolled in medical school at Aachen University and became drawn to physiology and biochemistry.
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