We are excited to announce the Chairs for the 26th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer: Stephen Lam Chan, MD, of the The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City; and Alberto F. Sobrero, MD, of

Join expert Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center & international #colorectal surgeons at this year’s #MSKcolorectalCME MSK CME. Day 1 features live robotic surgeries including TME & CME, expert discussions, & a multidisciplinary tumor board on complex cases. Register at bit.ly/colorectal2023

Josh Smith, MD, PhD, FACS Andrea Cercek Rona Yaeger Emmanouil Pappou Paul Romesser Christopher H. Crane Zsofia Stadler

Thrilled to see Dr. Tim Frankel installed as the inaugural Maud T. Lane Professor of Surgical Oncology! 👏 👏 👏

Voting is now open for the ASCO Election! I am honored to be included among these leaders as a candidate for the Nominating Committee. Click👇 to learn more about the candidates and to vote! 🗳️ ASCO Dana-Farber News Dana-Farber's Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer Center Dana-Farber

A few days ago Angelita has been awarded the Bigelow medal from the BostonSurgicalSociety. First woman surgeon ever to receive the award. First colorectal surgeon. First Latin-American surgeon. Me? I had the absolute privilege to walk this GIANT towards the podium.

The second cohort of National Cancer Institute Early-stage Surgeon Scientist Program (ESSP) met on NIH's campus for a successful and impactful symposium! A huge thank you to our experts for joining. NCI Cancer Training NIH Nastaran Zahir, PhD Oliver Bogler Katherine Gallagher Juliet Emamaullee MD PhD Fiemu Nwariaku Lindsay Demblowski

Peer mentorship, community, and grantsmanship. Aims page reviews virtually every month - open to all colorectal surgeons and trainees. DM for a link!

Thank you to the >80 sites that have opened #ERASur and are actively offering this study to patients. For sites that don’t have it open, please consider opening this study to help clarify the role of metastatic-directed therapy for patients with mCRC.

Busy morning at #GI24 poster session w/outstanding SmithLab & GarciaLab members representing Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center @ #GI24 Topics include: accuracy of endoscopy/MRI post-TNT, Local excision/ESD post-TNT, Rectal Cancer Tumoroid Biorepository & brain met genomics from colorectal origin

Support these talented surgeons riding 2 help our patients & support cancer research Cycle for Survival Drs. Farrow, Foster, Saadat & Liu Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: Nellie: secure2.convio.net/mskcc/site/TR/… Deshka: secure2.convio.net/mskcc/site/TR/… Lily: secure2.convio.net/mskcc/site/TR/… Marion: secure2.convio.net/mskcc/site/TR/…

Appreciate the opportunity to discuss our NEO-RT trial for stage I #rectalcancer . Open now via NCTN NCI CTEP Clinical Research ! CCTG Fight Colorectal Cancer Colon Cancer Foundation OncoAlert Dr. Carl J Brown 🌎 Josh Smith, MD, PhD, FACS Colorectal Cancer Alliance Manju George MVSc PhD Rectal Cancer Survivor Pashtoon Kasi MD, MS Prajnan Das, MD, MS, MPH Fergal Fleming

Grateful for ongoing mentorship from Karuna Ganesh and the opportunity to present early findings from our longitudinal study of #microbiome correlates of early age at onset and tumor sidedness in #CRC Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center University Hospitals Case Comp Cancer Ctr

Very grateful to AACR and The Breast Cancer Research Foundation for their Career Development Award to fund our research on race-aware multimodal predictors of response to neoadjuvant therapy for breast cancer patients. #AACR24

#ChalabiPlot💦📊 now in print NEJM. Congratulations 🎉 Myriam Chalabi. 📌nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… With an editorial ✍🏾 by Andrea Cercek. 📌nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… What a good read 📖. Bookmarked.🔖 👏🏾 OncoAlert #CRCSM 💡Neoadjuvant paradigm shift.

Interested to learn about #RNAVaccines for #cancer? Our thoughts now in Cancer Cell RNA Vaccines for cancer: Principles to Practice cell.com/cancer-cell/ab… Free pdf is here 👇🏽 authors.elsevier.com/a/1jDHe5TA51hO…

So excited to see ERASur open Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and to work with Dr. Cathy Eng and her team on this important study! COLONTOWN Kate Hitchcock (she/ella) Paul Romesser Sepideh Gholami, MD, MAS, FACS, FSSO

New article in press: Total neoadjuvant therapy with mFOLFIRINOX versus preoperative chemoradiotherapy in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer: long-term results of the UNICANCER-PRODIGE 23 trial. Unicancer ICL Lorraine doi.org/10.1016/j.anno…

Do you measure/track QoL in your patients with Stage IV colorectal cancer? Check out this review article to understand why we should and which tools to use! Anita Turk IU Health The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute George J Chang Josh Smith, MD, PhD, FACS David Liska Heather Yeo MD ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Amazing opportunity to learn from experts in the field of hereditary cancer genetics! A well rounded meeting spanning from molecular genetics to risks assessment, prevention and management CGA-IGC InSiGHT ASCRS_1 CRSVirtualEd American College of Surgeons ASCO Zsofia Stadler