Alex Parikh was named chief of surgical oncology and chair of the Mays Cancer Center Surgical Committee and Cancer Surgery Subservice Line at the Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson.
Breast, bladder, and pancreatic cancers are increasingly being treated with a broad range of therapies before a patient undergoes surgery, and cancer stage at diagnosis continues to be a leading factor in determining a person’s survival rate for all types of cancer, according to the first-ever annual cancer report from the National Cancer Database.
