Oncologic Surgery at
Upstate Cancer Center:
Advanced Approach, Healing Touch
BY JENNIFER WEBSTER
THE FELLOWSHIPžTR AINED SURGEONS AT SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSIT Y'S CANCER CENTER
PERFORM ADVANCED PROCEDURES, OFFER CLINICAL TRIALS AND EMBR ACE UNPAR ALLELED
COOPER ATION WITH THEIR COLLE AGUES. THEIR CARE FOR E ACH PATIENT A S A WHOLE PERSON SE TS
THE PROGR AM APART.
JEFFREY BOGART, MD, Professor and Chair of Radiation
Oncolog y, is Interim Director of Upstate Ca ncer Center.
He is responsible for coordinating the many activities and
relationships that structure care for the center's patients.
If a referral for surgery is a patient's first point of contact
with the Upstate Cancer Center, he or she will be cared for
by cancer-specia lized surgeons in a true multidisciplinary
environment, explains Dr. Bogart.
"This means every patient receives personalized and compre-
hensive care — from the most advanced surgical techniques, to
cutting-edge imaging and molecular diagnostics, to state-of-
the-art medical oncolog y and radiation oncolog y treatments,
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Gail Brehm with her surgeon, Ajay
Jain, MD, Chief of Surgical Oncology
and Associate Chief of Hepatobiliary
and Pancreatic Surgery at Upstate
Cancer Center
