From the Lab to the OR: Improving Imaging for Pediatric Cancer Surgery with Dr. Marcus Malek
May 18, 2023
In the latest episode of “That’s Pediatrics” – UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh’s podcast about all things pediatric health and wellness – our hosts talk with Marcus Malek, MD, FACS, FAAP, a pediatric surgeon and director of Pediatric Surgical Oncology at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, about the technology gap in the operating room that inspired Dr. Malek’s research to improve cancer surgery imaging.
Specifically, our experts touch on changes to the field of pediatric surgery in the past 10-15 years, how to take passive imaging like sentinel lymph node biopsies and build upon them to create better ways of locating and removing tumors, immunotherapy and fluorescent guided surgery as burgeoning fields within pediatric oncology, utilizing mouse models of neuroblastoma in the Malek Lab to develop a dual labeled antibody, and more.
Listen to “From the Lab to the OR: Improving Imaging for Pediatric Cancer Surgery with Dr. Marcus Malek” on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube and be sure to subscribe to never miss an episode.
