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December 2005
Awareness Raises Pancreatic Cancer Hopes
By: Dr. Syed Ahmad
Guest columnist
If someone asked you which cancer affects the most people - leukemia or pancreatic cancer - how would you answer?
Thanks to nationwide awareness campaigns, most would say leukemia. But in reality, the number of people affected by each disease is about the same. But not only does it come as a surprise to most people that the less-publicized pancreatic cancer is as common as leukemia….
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Dr. Syed Ahmad is a University of Cincinnati surgeon who specializes in treating pancreatic cancer.
August 2005
Welcome to Drs. Shailendra Chauhan and Nathan Schmulewitz
The Staff and Physicians of the UC PDC would like to welcome
Shailendra Chauhan, MD and Nathan Schmulewitz, MD to the practice.
Dr. Chauhan joins us after completing his endoscopy training at
the St. Luke Pancreatic and Biliary Center in Milwaukee, WI. Dr.
Schmulewitz will be joining us from Crozier Medical Center in
Philadelphia. Dr chauhan is scheduling new patients now and Dr.
Schmulewitz will begin in September.
May 2005
Farewell to Dr. Lehel Somogyi
The UC Pancreatic Disease Center is sad to announce the
departure of Lehel Somogyi, MD. Dr. Somogyi has taken a
position with a GI group in Portland, OR. We wish him all
the best in his new endeavor and thank him for his service
and expertise while he was with us here at UC. He will be
missed.
May 2005
Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer: Recent Controversies and
Current Practice
Pancreatic cancer remains a common
disease with a poor prognosis. In 2005, the American Cancer
Society estimates that there will be approximately 32,180
new cases of pancreatic cancer in the United States, with
31,800 deaths, making it the fourth most common cause of
cancer death. Read
more of this PDF article...
Annual Report 2004
Pancreatic Disease Center
Co-directed by Dr. Andrew Lowy of
the Division of Surgical Oncology and Dr. Lehel Somogyi of
the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Digestive
Diseases. Read more...
November-December
2004
Surgical Oncology Programs Expand
Unique Perfusion Techniques Offer Hope
Patients are
offered state-of-the-art treatment protocols and access to
innovative clinical trials, including pancreatic cancer and
colorectal cancer that has spread to the liver, using
molecularly targeted therapies not offered anywhere else in
the nation.
Read more...
November 2004
Medical Breakthrough Offers Cancer Patients New Hope
"The surgery is
called cyto-reductive, intra-peritoneal hyperthermic
profusion and University Hospital is one of only seven sites
in the country currently performing this type of treatment."
July
7, 2004
The surgeons of the UC PDC have performed the 42nd
successful Total Pancreatectomy with Auto Islet Cell
Transplantation for the treatment of chronic pancreatitis. View
our PDF publication on our first 22 cases for more
information on Total
Pancreatectomy with Auto Islet Cell Transplantation
, as well as the stories of two patients who had this life
changing procedure in our Survivor
Stories.
May 7, 2004
Angel of Mercy
Debbie Zepf, RN Clinical Nurse for Jeff
Matthews, MD, received flowers last week from the grateful
daughter of a patient in Connecticut. The patient, a 65-year-old
man, was at the Yale-New Haven Hospital and was told that he was
dying of pancreatitis and liver disease. The man's daughter was
very distressed and having no luck in getting a second opinion
from and expert. She found the UC Surgeons website on the
internet and was put in touch with Debbie because Dr. Matthews
is a nationally known expert in pancreatic disease. Debbie had
long conversations with the daughter and suggested that she send
her father's medical records. After reviewing the records, Dr.
Matthews called the patient's surgeon to discuss the prognosis.
Dr. Matthews agreed that no further intervention would be
helpful. The daughter and her father found peace in the fact
that they had explored every possibility. The daughter was
extremely grateful and said that Debbie "was sent from
God" to give her peace and strength.
April
26, 2004
The
Pancreatic
Disease Center is pleased to announce the addition of Andres
Gelrud, MD to the team. Dr. Gelrud comes to UC from Beth
Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, MA. He has trained at
the Harvard/MIT Health Science and Technology Institute, as
well as Tufts Medical School in Boston, MA. He completed a
fellowship in Pancreatology under the direction of Steven
Freedman, MD at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in
Boston, MA. He will work closely with the entire team,
bringing extensive pancreatic research experience from his
time in Boston. His interests include diagnostic and
therapeutic ERCP, as well as various pancreatic disease
research projects. We welcome his expertise to our group.
April
5, 2004
Register
Today!
"University
of Cincinnati Medical Center GI Update – Where Do We Go
From Here?” Lehel
Somogyi,
MD and Syed Ahmad, MD will be presenting at the University
of Cincinnati Medical Center GI Update Symposium.
Date: Saturday April 17, 2004, 8am-1:30pm
Location: Marriott Kingsgate Conference Center
Registration: Call 513-558-3525. $25, CME
credit available. Continental breakfast and lunch
provided.
Topics: “EUS and ERCP in Pancreatic Diseases:
Shifting Indications” and “New Developments in the
Etiology and Treatment of Acute Pancreatitis”, as well as
discussions on Liver Diseases, Bowels Diseases and Virtual
Colonoscopy.
March
24, 2004
Join Dr. Rilo, Friday, March 26, 2004. He will be
speaking at the Medical Grand Rounds at John Hopkins
University. The topic will be: "Clinical
Autologous Islet Cell Transplantation: When is the best
time?"
March
8, 2004
The UC Pancreatic Disease Center launches their new
PANCREATITIS / PANCREATIC CANCER SUPPORT FORUM for patients,
families, and friends. Log on today. It's FREE. Go
to the
Support Forum now
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