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Dr. Lola Fayanju, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, has been awarded a Duke-NUS travel grant  to facilitate collaboration with fellow surgical oncologists and health services researchers at the Singhealth Duke-NUS Breast Centre, the largest facility providing comprehensive breast cancer care in Singapore. Her visit, during which she will also give a lecture to the host department, will take place in early 2019.

Congratulations to Dr. Fayanju!

Dr. Nina Tamirisa, Fellow in Breast Surgical Oncology, has been awarded a Conquer Cancer Merit Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) for her project titled "The Impact of Chemotherapy Sequence on Survival in Node-positive Invasive Lobular Carcinoma." This abstract, for which Dr. Tamirisa is first author and Dr. Lola Fayanju, Assistant Professor of Surgery, is senior author, was selected for presentation at the 2018 ASCO meeting in Chicago.

Lola Fayanju, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Advanced Oncologic and Gastrointestinal Surgery, presented her recent research at the American Surgical Association (ASA) Annual Meeting. Her research involved a review of 20,000 patients in the National Cancer Database, with a focus on the results of neoadjuvant chemotherapy and its link to overall survival rates.

The Duke Department of Surgery is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter J. Allen, MD, as the new Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology in the Department of Surgery and Chief of Surgery for the Duke Cancer Institute (DCI).

The Society of Surgical Oncology has selected Georgia Beasley, MD, MHS, Assistant Professor of Surgery, to present at the 13th International Symposium on Regional Cancer Therapies. The symposium promotes the exchange of information among physicians, nurses, and researchers practicing in medical, surgical, thoracic, and gynecologic oncology, and gastroenterology.

The Section of Breast Surgery in the Division of Advanced Oncologic and Gastrointestinal Surgery has 5 abstracts accepted for oral or poster presentation at the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) Annual Meeting next month in Chicago. The abstracts materialized from the Duke Breast Clinical Outcomes Meeting, a weekly meeting created by Dr.

Five faculty members from the Duke Department of Surgery have been selected to participate in the 2018 Duke Leadership Development for Researchers (LEADER) program sponsored by the Duke University School of Medicine Office of Faculty Development.

Duke Surgery’s participants include the following members:

For Rachel A. Greenup, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Division of Advanced Oncologic and Gastrointestinal Surgery, understanding how the cost of treatment impacts women with breast cancer is paramount to her research. Dr. Greenup has been selected to present her latest research abstract, “The Financial Burden of Breast Cancer Treatment,” at the annual Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) meeting in October. 

Study finds little survival benefit and high costs from the preventive procedure

Mutations in the BRCA gene correspond to a higher lifetime risk of developing breast and ovarian cancers, and many women who carry these mutations consider undergoing mastectomy or removal of the ovaries and fallopian tubes as preventive measures.

Gayathri Devi, PhD, Associate Professor of Surgery and Pathology, and Member of the Women’s Cancer Program at the Duke Cancer Institute, has received a Breakthrough Award from the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program (CDMP-BCRP) in the amount of $1,192,441.