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Yukio Sonoda is affiliated with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medical fields related to obstetrics, gynecology, surgery, reproductive medicine, oncology, and cancer research.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments
  • Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment
  • Uterine Myomas and Treatments
  • Intraperitoneal and Appendiceal Malignancies
  • Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments
  • Cervical Cancer and HPV Research
  • Endometriosis Research and Treatment

Sonoda has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Gynecologic Oncology
  • International Journal of Gynecological Cancer
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Gynecologic Oncology Reports
  • Nature

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Sonoda are:

  • "Ovarian cancer mutational processes drive site-specific immune evasion," 2022, Nature
  • "Secondary Cytoreduction and Carboplatin Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy for Platinum-Sensitive Recurrent Ovarian Cancer: An MSK Team Ovary Phase II Study," 2021, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • "Radical Trachelectomy for the Treatment of Early-Stage Cervical Cancer," 2020, Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • "Minimally invasive surgery versus laparotomy for radical hysterectomy in the management of early-stage cervical cancer: Survival outcomes," 2020, Gynecologic Oncology
  • "High-Sensitivity Mutation Analysis of Cell-Free DNA for Disease Monitoring in Endometrial Cancer," 2022, Clinical Cancer Research

Sonoda has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Oliver Zivanovic
  • Kara Long Roche
  • Ginger J. Gardner
  • Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum
  • Vance Broach

Their contributions span 227 publications within medicine, emphasizing surgical and clinical approaches to gynecologic cancers and related diseases. The body of work reflects sustained research activity within cancer diagnosis, treatment modalities, and surgical techniques applicable to gynecologic oncology.

Best Publications

  • What is the optimal goal of primary cytoreductive surgery for bulky stage IIIC epithelial ovarian carcinoma (EOC)

    D. S. Chi;E. L. Eisenhauer;J. Lang;J. Huh

  • Improved progression-free and overall survival in advanced ovarian cancer as a result of a change in surgical paradigm

    Dennis S. Chi;Eric L. Eisenhauer;Oliver Zivanovic;Yukio Sonoda

  • Clinicopathologic Features of BRCA-Linked and Sporadic Ovarian Cancer

    Jeff Boyd;Yukio Sonoda;Mark G. Federici;Faina Bogomolniy

  • The importance of applying a sentinel lymph node mapping algorithm in endometrial cancer staging: Beyond removal of blue nodes

    Joyce N. Barlin;Fady Khoury-Collado;Christine H. Kim;Mario M. Leitao

  • The incidence of symptomatic lower-extremity lymphedema following treatment of uterine corpus malignancies: a 12-year experience at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

    Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum;Kaled Alektiar;Alexia Iasonos;Gali Lev

  • Guidelines and selection criteria for secondary cytoreductive surgery in patients with recurrent, platinum-sensitive epithelial ovarian carcinoma.

    Dennis S. Chi;Kristina McCaughty;John P. Diaz;Jae Huh

  • The addition of extensive upper abdominal surgery to achieve optimal cytoreduction improves survival in patients with stages IIIC-IV epithelial ovarian cancer.

    Eric L. Eisenhauer;Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum;Yukio Sonoda;Douglas A. Levine

  • An analysis of patients with bulky advanced stage ovarian, tubal, and peritoneal carcinoma treated with primary debulking surgery (PDS) during an identical time period as the randomized EORTC-NCIC trial of PDS vs neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT).

    Dennis S. Chi;Fernanda Musa;Fanny Dao;Oliver Zivanovic

  • Detection of sentinel lymph nodes in minimally invasive surgery using indocyanine green and near-infrared fluorescence imaging for uterine and cervical malignancies

    Elizabeth L. Jewell;Elizabeth L. Jewell;Juan Juan Huang;Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum;Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum;Ginger J. Gardner;Ginger J. Gardner

  • Pathologic Ultrastaging Improves Micrometastasis Detection in Sentinel Lymph Nodes during Endometrial Cancer Staging

    Christine H. Kim;Robert A. Soslow;Kay J. Park;Emma L. Barber

  • Sentinel lymph node mapping for grade 1 endometrial cancer: Is it the answer to the surgical staging dilemma?

    Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum;Fady Khoury-Collado;Neeta Pandit-Taskar;Robert A. Soslow

  • Total laparoscopic radical hysterectomy with pelvic lymphadenectomy using the argon-beam coagulator: pilot data and comparison to laparotomy

    Nadeem R Abu-Rustum;Mary L Gemignani;Kathleen Moore;Yukio Sonoda

  • Oncologic outcome of fertility-sparing radical trachelectomy versus radical hysterectomy for stage IB1 cervical carcinoma.

    John P. Diaz;Yukio Sonoda;Mario M. Leitao;Oliver Zivanovic

  • A multicenter prospective trial evaluating the ability of preoperative computed tomography scan and serum CA-125 to predict suboptimal cytoreduction at primary debulking surgery for advanced ovarian, fallopian tube, and peritoneal cancer

    Rudy S. Suidan;Pedro Tomas Ramirez;Debra M. Sarasohn;Jerrold B. Teitcher

  • The safety and efficacy of laparoscopic surgical staging of apparent stage I ovarian and fallopian tube cancers

    Dennis S. Chi;Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum;Yukio Sonoda;Joseph Ivy

  • Management of uterine malignancy found incidentally after supracervical hysterectomy or uterine morcellation for presumed benign disease.

    M. H. Einstein;R. R. Barakat;D. S. Chi;Y. Sonoda

  • The incidence of major complications after the performance of extensive upper abdominal surgical procedures during primary cytoreduction of advanced ovarian, tubal, and peritoneal carcinomas.

    Dennis S. Chi;Oliver Zivanovic;Kimberly L. Levinson;Valentin Kolev

  • The incidence of pelvic lymph node metastasis by FIGO staging for patients with adequately surgically staged endometrial adenocarcinoma of endometrioid histology

    D. S. Chi;R. R. Barakat;M. J. Palayekar;D. A. Levine

  • The incidence of isolated paraaortic nodal metastasis in surgically staged endometrial cancer patients with negative pelvic lymph nodes

    Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum;Jacob D. Gomez;Kaled M. Alektiar;Robert A. Soslow

  • Pathologic ultrastaging improves micrometastasis detection in sentinel lymph nodes during endometrial cancer staging

    C. Kim;E. Barber;F. Khoury-Collado;J. Barlin

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis S. Chi
Dennis S. Chi Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum
Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Richard R. Barakat
Richard R. Barakat Northwell Health
Douglas A. Levine
Douglas A. Levine New York University
Carol Aghajanian
Carol Aghajanian Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Robert A. Soslow
Robert A. Soslow Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Bernard H. Bochner
Bernard H. Bochner Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Pedro Tomas Ramirez
Pedro Tomas Ramirez The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Hedvig Hricak
Hedvig Hricak Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Andrew J. Vickers
Andrew J. Vickers Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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