Paul Sugarbaker

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Paul Hendrick Sugarbaker (born November 28, 1941 in Baltimore ) is an American surgeon at the Washington Cancer Institute, known for developments in surgical oncology, especially of the abdomen.

Life

Sugarbaker attended Jefferson City, Missouri high school (graduated 1959) and graduated from Wheaton College , Illinois with a bachelor's degree (BS) in 1963 and received his doctorate in medicine (MD) from Cornell University Medical College in 1967. His residency as a surgeon he graduated from the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston (internship 1967/68, residency 1968 to 1973, chief resident 1973) 1973 to 1976 he conducted research at the Massachusetts General Hospital . He was then senior surgeon at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda (Maryland) for ten years (most recently as head of colon cancer surgery), from 1986 to 1989 head of surgical oncology at Emory University Medical School and from 1989 medical director of Washington Cancer Institute at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. From 1993 he was director of surgical oncology there.

In 1983 he received a masters degree in immunology from Harvard University .

He developed a surgical technique named after him for the treatment of tumors that affect the peritoneum and the abdominal cavity (intraperitoneal space) and which usually have a poor prognosis. These include pseudomyxoma peritonei , peritoneal mesothelioma and metastasis of tumors of the gastrointestinal tract such as stomach cancer and ovarian cancer . In the HIPEC (hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy) developed by him, coupled with cytoreductive surgery, the tumor with metastases is first surgically removed as completely as possible in a complex operation and then, in the subsequent chemotherapy, the abdominal cavity is flushed with cytostatic drugs, the effectiveness of which is increased by heating the irrigation fluid.

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and a founding member of the International Society of Regional Cancer Therapy. Sugarbaker received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society of Abdominal Surgeons.

He is co-editor of the European Journal of Surgical Oncology .

Fonts

  • Carcinoma of the colon — prognosis and operative choice, Chicago, Yar Book Medical Publishers 1982
  • with others: Atlas of extremity sarcoma surgery, Philadelphia: Lippincott 1984
  • with Martin Malawer u. a .: Musculoskeletal surgery for cancer: principles and techniques, Thieme 1992

as editor:

  • Management of gastric cancer, Kluwer 1991
  • Pelvic surgery and treatment for cancer, St. Louis: Mosby 1994
  • with Cornelis JH van de Velde: Liver metastasis: basic aspects, detection, and management, Kluwer 1984
  • Cytoreductive Surgery and Perioperative Chemotherapy for Peritoneal Surface Malignancy, Textbook and Video Atlas. Cine-Med Publishing: Woodbury, CT, 2012

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