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Did the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster increase my chances of getting thyroid cancer?
… the thyroid is functioning properly, it absorbs iodine from food and the environment. However, when radioactive … their intake of green leafy vegetables, milk and water from potentially contaminated sources. Unfortunately, the … Soviet citizens affected by Chernobyl could not benefit from a timely evacuation and were not advised to avoid …
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Pancreatic Cysts
… for becoming malignant. It is not possible to determine from imaging alone which cysts are benign and which are … guidelines included two sets of recommendations, one from the American College of Radiology and the other from the American Pancreas Association. In general, these …
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What We're Reading: 07/10/26
… early can change the entire course of the disease. (from nytimes.com) The Genes That Could Cancel Out a Fatal … foundational relationships happening inside our bodies. (from theatlantic.com) Rope-A-Dope The Enhanced Games may … understand what their bodies should be capable of. (from newyorker.com) And now, some homegrown fiction! In his …
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New Faculty Highlight: P. Ravi Kiran, MBBS
… colon, rectum, or anal canal will directly benefit from Dr. Kiran's arrival. The Department of Surgery welcomes … colon, rectum or anal canal will directly benefit from Dr. Kiran's arrival. He brings a wealth of expertise … Dr. Kiran's experience also benefits patients who suffer from diverticular disease, anorectal conditions, bowel …
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Colorectal Surgeons Perform First Pelvic IORT Procedure
… that shields organs like the bowel or blood vessels from scatter radiation,” Dr. Chao said. “Because of the way … tumor.” “When you open up the abdomen to remove a tumor from the liver, bowel, or pancreas, the terrain of the … Chao is currently working with engineers and physicists from NYP/Columbia and NYP/Weill Cornell Medical Center to …
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Cytoreduction Surgery and Heated Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy
… appendiceal cancer, and ovarian cancer commonly spread from their primary sites to the wall of the abdomen. When … survival at five years for patients whose cancer spread from the colon; ten years average survival for patients with … The outstanding reputation of this program draws patients from all over North America, including many who have been …
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Weight Loss Surgery for Kids with Severe Obesity Is Now Part of the American Academy of Pediatrics Treatment Guidelines. Here’s Why.
… in addressing obesity, with treatment options ranging from lifestyle changes to medications and surgical … in underserved communities. The ongoing pressure from the food industry for people to consume not only large … In light of these guidelines, has there been reticence from pediatricians to recommend bariatric surgery? In 2010, a …
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State of the Union: Pediatric Surgery in 2025
… pediatric surgery is how many exciting aspects there are—from the doctoring and educating to the technological and … wonderful and amazing is just the gratification that comes from taking care of somebody's child. I really embrace the … honesty, candor, all those things I think come from the top of a smaller organization like an academic …
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New Peer Support Program Helps Surgeons Process Adverse Events and Improve
… attendings and five residents, including participants from each department—and invited them to a 2.5 hour training … department analyzes what happened and how to prevent it from happening again, the clinicians involved are identified … we can be.” Don’t miss an update on news and content from Healthpoints, the blog from the Department of Surgery at …
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Spotlight on Graduating Chief Resident Dr. Jonathan Yang
… their hospital. During this time, I was on call anywhere from once every six days to almost every day. It is not the … treading water, trying to figure out everything from the hospital computer system to the patient management … self-sufficient more quickly and might also save you from making a mistake. Q: What do you do to keep balance in …
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The Complicated Reality of Weight Gain, Weight Loss, and Weight Stigma
… Dr. Bessler has led the evolution of weight loss surgery from open procedures with a mortality rate of 1 to 2 percent, … the risk of a long list of serious medical conditions, from heart disease and hypertension to cancers and mental … BMI and BRI: A Q&A with Columbia’s Bariatric NP Gio Dugay From Surgery to Social Media: How Dani Found Strength, …
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Clinical Trials and Innovative Research At the Pancreas Center
… we choose the clinical trials we offer to our patients from promising national studies because they seem likely to … cancer are tackling the challenges of this disease from many different angles, it is critical that eligible … maximum effectiveness requires working with tissue samples from that tumor. These samples can be used to create models …
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People Are Everything: Dr. Emile Bacha on Culture, Leadership, and the Next Chapter of Columbia Surgery
… same time, I recognize that the future is always different from the past. We have to move forward and think about what … learning. You have to have an open mind. You want to learn from other people, and you want to apply what you learn about … to say that I noticed those mistakes myself and learned from them. Nobody is born a perfect leader, I can assure you …
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A New Combination Therapy Shows Promise in Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
… Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center newsroom. Results from an early-stage clinical trial, published in Nature … is particularly immunosuppressive, shielding the tumor from immune attack and making it one of the biggest barriers … a regimen that could attack the tumor’s defenses from several directions: motixafortide, which blocks CXCR4; …
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Dr. AI: Is Minimally Invasive Living Donor Liver Surgery Better than Open Surgery?
… Surgery, Jason Hawksworth, MD , asks a common question from patients who need a liver transplant: "Is Minimally … liver and replaces it with a portion of a healthy liver from a living donor. Due to the liver’s unique ability to …
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