Departments/Faculties
KNU School Of Medicine| Department | Breast and Thyroid Surgery |
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| Introduction | The Division of Breast and Thyroid Surgery has performed operations for more than 4,000 cases of breast cancer and 8,000 cases of thyroid disease. To improve the outcome of breast cancer patients, the division has a close cooperation with other departments in the hospital, such as radiology, pathology, nuclear medicine, plastic surgery, hemato-oncology, rehabilitation, and psychiatry. Moreover, the division introduced the robotic surgery for a thyroid operation for the first time in the Daegu-Kyungpook area. In fact, the robotic surgery had a result comparable to that of the conventional surgery in the surgical treatment of thyroid cancer, but it reduced the cosmetic problems significantly. It can also be applied to the surgery for benign thyroid tumors and parathyroid glands. The division is active in the basic research as well. It has an extensive international collaborative network of researchers from Italy (Prof. Petit), USA (Prof. Chang, MD Andersen), Germany (Prof. Audretsch), and Japan (Prof. Nohira) and hold international meetings in 2010 and 2011. The main research topic is the development of new drugs for the treatment of breast cancer, which is pursued in close collaboration with the Cell and Matrix Research Institute at KNU, Seoul National University, and Dongguk University. Laser treatment-based local therapy for the cancers of breast and thyroid glands has also been pursued.
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| Professors | Chairman: Sang Geol Kim, MD, PhD Hoyong Park, MD, PhD
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