Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief

Kazuaki Takabe, MD, PhD, FACS
Professor, Alfiero Foundation Chair, and Clinical Chief of Breast Surgery in Department of Surgical Oncology at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York, USA
Professor of Surgery with Tenure in Department of Surgery, University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the State University of New York, USA
Research Areas: Cancer research, In silico translational research, Cancer immunology, Animal models, Sphingolipid signaling, Biomarker research
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Editorial Board

Mehmet Asim Bilen, MD, Professor
Hematology/ Medical Oncology Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Research areas: Genitourinary Oncology, Phase 1 clinical trial
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Andrea Botticelli, MD, Assistant Professor
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Research areas: Oncology, immuno oncology, breast cancer, lung cancer, renal cancer, personalized medicine, microbioma
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Carmen Burtea, PhD, MsC, Professor
General, Organic & Biomedical Chemistry, NMR & Molecular Imaging Laboratory, University of Mons, Mons, Belgium
Research areas: Cellular and Molecular Biology, Diagnosis, Therapy
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Robert B. Cameron, MD, Professor
Prof. of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Research areas: Cardiothoracic surgery, Surgical oncology, Tumor immunology
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Ernest Ramsay Camp, MD, MSCR, FACS., Professor
Professor and Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology, Olga Keith Wiess Chair of Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery
Executive Surgical Director and Oncology Service Line Chief, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, TX, USA
Research areas: Pancreatic, Gastric, Biliary cancer-clinical, Translational, Basic science research
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Eric Xueyu Chen, MD, Professor
Cancer Clinical Research Unit (CCRU), Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Canada
Research areas: Pharmacokinetics of anti-cancer agents, Development of novel therapy in gastrointestinal and head/neck cancers
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Hexin Chen, PhD, Professor
Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
Research areas: breast cancer, cancer stem cells, microRNA, oncogene, tumor suppressor
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Yoh Dobashi, MD, PhD, Professor
Director, Division of Pathology, Edogawa Hospita, Tokyo, Japan
Research areas: Molecular pathology, Diagnostic pathology, Signal transduction, Lung cancer, Sarcoma of the bone and the soft tissue
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Stephen B. Edge, MD, FACS, FASCO, Professor
Surgical Oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
Research areas: Breast cancer; Surgical oncology; Health outcomes
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Ashkan Emadi, MD, PhD, Professor
Department of Medical Oncology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, USA
Research areas: Acute and Chronic leukemias, MDS, MPN
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Derek J. Erstad, MD, Associate Professor
Division of Surgical Oncology, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine/Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, USA
Research areas: Hepatobiliary and gastric cancers
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Yujiang Fang, MD, PhD, Associate Professor
Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Des Moines University, Des Moines, USA
Research areas: Pathology, Cancer, Urology, gynecology
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Andrea Casadei Gardini, MD, Associate Professor
Medical Oncology, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
Research areas: Hepatocellular carcinoma, Cholangiocarcinoma, Gastrointestinal tumor
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Nadia M Hamdy, PhD, Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dept., Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Research areas: Clinical biochemistry, Oncology, Epigenetics, Life sciences
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Takuma Hayashi, MD, PhD, GMRC, Professor
Cancer Medicine, National Hospital Organization Kyoto Medical Center, Japan
Research areas: Cancer, Oncology, Gynecological tumor, Infectious Disease, Emerging infectious diseases
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Mohammad Amir Hossain, MD
Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall, Hackensack Meridian Health, USA
Research areas: Internal Medicine, medications related
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Ozge Kilicoglu, MD, Assistant Professor
Vocational School of Health Services, Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye
Research areas: Radiation, Nuclear Physics, Radiation Shielding
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Feng Liu-Smith, PhD, Assistant Professor
School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, USA
Research areas: melanoma, drug resistance, signal pathway, epidemiology
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Georgios Antonios Margonis, MD, PhD, Senior Research Scientist
Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, USA; Operations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, MA, USA
Research areas: Surgical Oncology, HPB, Artificial Intelligence in Oncology
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Benjamin L. Maughan, MD, PharmD, Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Research areas: Genitourinary Medical Oncology
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Masayuki Nagahashi, MD, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Surgery, Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Hyogo Medical University, Nishinomiya, Japan
Research areas: Breast cancer, Translational research
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Steven Narod, MD, FRCPC, Professor, Senior Scientist
Director, Familial Breast Cancer Research Unit, Women's College Research Institute
Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
Research areas: Breast cancer
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Tracey L. O'Connor, MD, Associate Professor
Department of Breast Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, USA
Research areas: Breast cancer, palliative care, geriatric oncology
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Thein H. Oo, MD, Professor
Professor of Medicine / Consultant Benign Hematologist, Section of Benign Hematology / Department of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
Research areas: Cancer-associated thrombosis and hemostasis, Cytopenias related to nutritional disorders, Immune checkpoint inhibitors-induced cytopenias, Pernicious anemia
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Abbas Rana, MD, Professor, FACS
Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Michael E. Debakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
Research areas: Hepatobiliary malignancy
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Prashanth Rawla, MD, Assistant Professor
Parrish Medical Center, Martinsville, USA
Research areas: Internal Medicine, pathology of disease, pancreatitis, hepatitis, diabetes, oncology, mainly GI oncology and liver carcinoma
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Alessandro Rizzo, MD, Dr.
Medical Oncology, IRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", Bari, Italy
Research areas: Cancer, Oncology, Breast cancer, Immunotherapy, Lung cancer
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Takuji Tanaka, MD, PhD, Professor and Director
Department of Diagnostic Pathology (DDP) & Recsearch Center of Diagnostic Pathology (RC-DiP), Gifu Municipal Hospital, Japan
Research areas: Oncogenesis, Chemoprevention, Cytology, Pathology
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Masayoshi Yamaguchi, PhD, Full Professor
Cancer Biology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA
Research areas: Prostate cancer, Breast cancer, Bone metastasis, Cancer microenvironment
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Managing Editors

Kohei Chida, MD, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Surgical Oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo NY, USA
Research areas: Breast, Esophagus, Thyroid, Melanoma, Lung, Gallbladder, Kidney, Liver, Pancreas, Colon, Gastric, Oncology Emergency
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Licun Wu, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, and Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
Research areas: Lung cancer, Thoracic cancer
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