Working to Eradicate Gynecologic Cancers

Yukio Sonoda, MD

Associate Attending Surgeon
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Gynecology Service, Dept. of Surgery
1275 York Avenue
New York, NY
USA 10065


Biographical Sketch:
I am an Assistant Attending Surgeon on the Gynecology Service of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, with a special interest in the use of minimally invasive techniques. My research focuses on outcomes after surgery for gynecologic malignancies."

Papers:
77 Outcomes of patients with stage I endometrial cancer in the sentinel lymph node era 88 Impact of obesity on sentinel lymph node mapping in patients with newly diagnosed uterine cancer undergoing robotic surgery 91 A multicenter prospective assessment of surgical findings associated with suboptimal cytoreduction at primary debulking surgery for advanced ovarian, fallopian tube and peritoneal cancer 104 Improvement in rates of cytoreduction to no residual for stages IIIB-IV ovarian, fallopian tube and primary peritoneal cancer: a change in surgical approach and individualized surgeon feedback 109 Cost-effectiveness analysis of conventional laparoscopic versus robotically assisted laparoscopic adnexal surgery for benign indications performed by gynecologic oncologists 183 Radical hysterectomy: programmatic change to reduce laparotomy rate while maintaining oncologic outcome for early stage cervical cancer 292 Combined preoperative and extended pharmacologic venous thromboembolic prophylaxis in patient undergoing surgery for advanced adnexal malignancies 315 Cost-effectiveness analysis of robotically assisted radical hysterectomy for newly diagnosed uterine cervical cancer 446 Predictive value of the age-adjusted Charlson comorbidity index on perioperative complications and survival in patients undergoing surgery for advanced ovarian cancer