Interview: Combined-modality therapy in gastrointestinal cancers

摘要

Charles Richard Thomas Jr speaks to Theo Bond, Assistant Commissioning Editor: Charles Richard Thomas Jr is Professor and chair of the Department of Radiation Medicine and Professor of Hematology/Oncology in the Department of Medicine at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland (OR, USA). He is also an active member of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute (OR, USA). Thomas has received triple-board certification in Radiation Oncology (American Board of Radiology), Medical Oncology and Internal Medicine (American Board of Internal Medicine). He is a member of the NCI Rectal Anal Cancer Task Force. He also has an interest in cancer disparities and was one of the editors for the special edition on cancer disparities published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology in 2006. He is also active in protocol development either as chair or co-chair within the US co-operative group mechanism, with a focus on novel therapeutic and translational clinical research on gastrointestinal and thoracic malignanci...