For Appointments
617-724-3868

Fax
617-724-3895

Office Address
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Division of Surgical Oncology
55 Fruit Street, YAW 7
Boston, MA 02114

Clinical Interests
Liver Surgery; Liver Cancer; Melanoma

Laboratory Interests
Surgical Oncology Research Laboratory

Education
MD Degree: University of California, San Diego, CA, 1985

Postdoctoral Training
Residency: Surgery, The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center, NY
Fellowship: Surgical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Board Certification
American Board of Surgery, 1991

Hospital Appointments
Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Surgical Director, Pigmented Lesion Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital
Surgeon, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Director, Division of Surgical Oncology Research Laboratories
Director, Liver Surgery Program

Academic Appointments
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Editorial Boards
Hepatobiliary Section Editor for Cancer
Gastrointestinal Cancer Section Editor for UpToDate
Hepatobiliary Section Editor for The Oncologist
Laboratory Research for Annals of Surgical Oncology

Recent Lectures
American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association Annual Meeting (2005): Radiofrequency ablation: past, present, future.

Japan Surgical Society Annual Meeting (2005): Surgical treatment of colorectal carcinoma liver metastases.

Harvard Medical School -- Percutaneous Tumor Ablation: Current Status and Future Directions (2005): RFA: The Hepatic Surgeon’s Perspective.

American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting (2004). Resection of non-colorectal carcinoma liver metastases.

American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (2003): Adjuvant therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma.

MD Anderson Cancer Center 2nd Multidisciplinary Management of Gastrointestinal Malignancies (2004): Current state of viral oncolysis for colorectal carcinoma liver metastases.

Harvard Medical School Advances in Cancer Management for the Surgeon (2004): "Management of Liver Tumors."

The 84th Annual Meeting of the New England Surgical Society (2003). Surgery for melanoma.

International Society of Gastrointestinal Oncology: Radiofrequency Ablation of Liver Tumors. 2006

5th International Symposium on Cancer Research and Chemotherapy: Integration of chemotherapy and surgery for colon and rectal cancer. 2006.

Program/Specialty
Liver
Melanoma

Honors & Awards
America's Top Doctors Award 2001-2007

My Publications
Link to PubMed Database

Dranoff, G., Soiffer, R., Lynch, T., Mihm, M., Jung, K., Kolesar, K., Liebster, L., Lam, P., Duda R., Mentzer, S., Singer, S., Tanabe, K., Johnson, R., Sober, A., Bhan, A., Clift, S., Cohen, L., Parry, G., Rokovich, J., Richards, L., Drayer, J., Berns, A., Mulligan, R.C. A phase I study of vaccination with autologous, irradiated melanoma cells engineered to secrete human granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor. Human Gene Ther. 8:111-123, 1997.

Reintgen, D., Rapaport, D., Tanabe, K.K., Ross M. Lymphatic mapping and sentinel node biopsy in patients with malignant melanoma. J. Florida Med. Assoc. 84:188-193, 1997.

Yu, L.L., Flotte, T.J., Tanabe, K.K., Gadd, M.A., Cosimi, A.B., Duncan, L.M. Detection of microscopic melanoma metastases in sentinel lymph nodes. Cancer 86:617-627.

Gadd, M.A., Cosimi, A.B., Duncan, L.M., Yu, L., Flotte, T.J., Wong, L.S., Souba, W.W., Ott, M.J., Sober, A.J., Mihm, M.C., Haluska, F.G., Tanabe, K.K. Outcome of melanoma patients with histologically negative sentinel lymph nodes. Arch. Surg. 134:381-387, 1999.

Yoon, S.S., Eto, H., Lin, C-M., Song, S.U., Nakamura, H., Tanabe, K.K. Mouse endostatin inhibits formation of lung and liver metastases. Cancer Res. 59:6251-6256, 1999.

Wrone, D.A., Tanabe, K.K., Cosimi, A.B., Gadd, M.A., Souba, W.W., Sober, A.J. Lymphedema after sentinel lymph node biopsy for cutaneous melanoma. Arch. Dermatol. 136:511-514, 2000.

Goldberg, S.N., Gazelle, G.S., Compton, C.C., Mueller, P.R., Tanabe, K.K. Treatment of intrahepatic malignancy with radiofrequency ablation: radiologic-pathologic correlation. Cancer 88:2452-2463, 2000.

Choi, S.H., Takahashi, K., Eto, H., Yoon, S.S., Tanabe, K.K. CD44s expression in human colon carcinomas influences growth of liver metastases. Int. J. Cancer 85:523-526, 2000.

Pawlik, T.M., Nakamura, H., Yoon, S.S., Mullen, J.T., Chandrasekhar, S., Chiocca, E.A., Tanabe, K.K. Oncolysis of Diffuse Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Intravascular Administration of a Replication-competent, Genetically Engineered Herpesvirus. Cancer Res. 60:2790-2795, 2000.

Yoon, S.S., Nakamura, H., Carroll, N.M., Bode, B.P., Chiocca, E.A., Tanabe, K.K. An oncolytic herpes simplex virus type 1 vector selectively treats diffuse liver metastases from colon carcinoma. FASEB J. 14:301-311, 2000.

Sahani, D.V., Kalva, S.P., Tanabe, K.K., Hayat, S.M., O'Neill, M.J., Halpern, E.F., Saini, S., Mueller, P.R. Intraoperative US in patients undergoing surgery for liver neoplasms: comparison with MR imaging. Radiology 232: 810-814, 2004.

Pawlik, T. and Tanabe, K.K. Radiofrequency Ablation for Primary and Metastatic Liver Tumors. Cancer Treat. Res. 109:247-67, 2001.

Gadd, M.A., Tseng, J., Tanabe, K.K. Lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymph node biopsy. In: Steele, GD., Phillips, T.L., Chabner, B.A., Sober, A.J., Haluska, F.G., Series eds. American Cancer Society Atlas of Clinical Oncology: Skin Cancers. B. C. Decker Inc., Ontario, 2001.

Yoon, S.S., Tanabe, K.K. Surgical Management of Metastatic Colon and Rectal Cancer In: Steele, GD., Phillips, T.L., Chabner, B.A., eds., Willett, C.G., Series eds. American Cancer Society Atlas of Clinical Oncology: Cancer of the Lower Gastrointestinal Tract. B. C. Decker Inc., Ontario, 2001.

Ellis, L.M., Curley, S.A., Tanabe, K.K. eds. Radiofrequency Ablation of Cancer: Current Indications, Technique, and Outcomes. Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., New York. 2004.

Choti, M.A., Tanabe, K.K. Radiofrequency Ablation of Colon and Rectal Carcinoma Liver Metastases. In: Radiofrequency Ablation of Cancer: Current Indications, Technique, and Outcomes. Ellis, L.M., Curley, S.A., Tanabe, K.K. eds. Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., New York. 2004.

Tanabe, K.K. Melanoma: In transit Metastases. In: Cannelos, G.P, Schnipper, L., Savarese, D.M.F., eds., UpToDate: Oncology. Wellesley. 2004.

Tanabe, K.K. Melanoma: Local Recurrences. In: Cannelos, G.P, Schnipper, L., Savarese, D.M.F., eds., UpToDate: Oncology. Wellesley. 2004.

Tanabe, K.K. Yoon, S.S. Surgical and Regional Therapy for Liver Metastases. In: Chang, A.E., Ganz, P.A., Hayes, D.F., Kinsella, T., Pass, H.I., Schiller, J.H., Stone, R., Strecher, V. Oncology: An Evidence Based Approach. Springer-Verlag, New York. In press.