;Samsung Medical Center;s own Gastric Cancer Center research team from the Comprehensive Cancer Center claims that they have proven the effectiveness of pembrolizumab in cancer immunotherapy after a two-year study of 61 metastatic gastric cancer p...
;The local ablation therapy team of the Liver Cancer Center of Samsung Medical Center is the first in the world to have published the results of radiofrequency ablation therapy on patients with recurrent subcentimeter hepatocellular carcinoma. The...
;New research suggests that treating mild cognitive impairment in menopausal women with estrogen gel and micronized progesterone (oral type) is effective in reducing cognitive function loss.The research team, led by Professors Yoon Byung Koo (M.D....
The liver, commonly referred to as the ;silent organ,; is affected by many illnesses (e.g., hepatitis, cirrhosis, cancer, etc.), but they come with inconspicuous early symptoms, so they are difficult to detect. In reality, most patients are diagno...
Samsung Medical Center revealed that it has succeeded in atrial fibrillation cryoballoon catheter ablation for the first time in Korea.;The Arrhythmia management team of the Cardiology Center (headed by Park Kyoung Min, MD, PhD, Cardiologist) has ...
The Samsung Medical Center;s Heart Vascular Stroke Institute cardiac arrhythmia team has reached 10,000 cardiac arrhythmia treatments, the first record in Korea for cases performed in EP LAP.;The number of procedures has been recorded to be 800;90...
The molecular biological characteristics of premenopausal breast cancer patients, that is, young breast cancer patients, among Asian women, including Koreans, have been identified by Korean researchers.Breast cancer is known to occur mainly after ...
A new study has revealed that the death rate of myocardial infarction (MI) patients treated with PCI(Percutaneous Coronary Intervention) for blood vessels that directly cause the disease as well as the rest of the stenosed vessels declined 10% com...
As we speed along into an aging society, medical treatments for above-90 elder patients are actively changing as well. Division of Vascular Surgery(Samsung Medical Center)has recently operated successfully on a 98-year-old abdominal aneurysm patie...
May 21, 2018, International Cooperation Department;Proton therapy is producing visible results in the field of liver cancer.In the latest issue of The Korean Society of Radiation Oncology Journal, the research team of Samsung Medical Center;s Prot...
SMC;s team has developed a machine learning system with the world;s highest prognostic accuracy for stomach cancer recurrence and published the research in the JCO Clinical Cancer InformaticsApril 17, 2018Office of External Affairs (SMC);The stoma...
;Samsung Medical Center reported that 4,000 microdecompression surgeries were recently conducted by a team of neurosurgeons led by Professor Park Kwan for the treatment of Hemifacial spasm and trigeminal neuropathy. More than 4,000 cases of microd...