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Andres F. Correa joins Fox Chase Cancer Center

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Andres F. Correa will join Fox Chase Cancer Center as an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery in the Urologic Oncology Division starting May 4.

Correa, who was a Society of Urologic Oncology Fellow at Fox Chase, is returning to the center after serving as attending surgeon and assistant professor in the division of urology in the department of surgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper University Hospital.

Correa is skilled at surgical modalities including robotics, laparoscopy, and traditional open surgery, and has expertise in prostate, kidney, bladder, testicular, and other genitourinary cancers.

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