NYU Langone Health鈥檚 Thoracic Medical Oncology Program at Perlmutter Cancer Center has become 1 of 23 institutions and programs selected to comprise the American Association for Thoracic Surgery鈥檚 Thoracic Surgery Oncology Group (TSOG), a North American thoracic surgery clinical trials network.
鈥淥ver the last few years, Perlmutter Cancer Center has recruited some of the top surgical, medical, pulmonary, and radiation oncologists in the country,鈥 says Harvey I. Pass, MD, the Stephen E. Banner Professor of Thoracic Oncology in the and surgical chief of thoracic oncology at Perlmutter Cancer Center. 鈥淪election as a member of the TSOG highlights Perlmutter Cancer Center鈥檚 position as a major cancer center in the United States.鈥
Membership in TSOG will allow enhanced collaborations in the translational and component of Perlmutter Cancer Center鈥檚 , which has been nurtured by Kwok-Kin Wong, MD, PhD, the Anne Murnick Cogan and David H. Cogan Professor of Oncology in the and director of the .
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