Prof.Dr.
NPO HIPEC ISTANBUL, Turkey
SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF EMEL CANBAY
Emel Canbay has a MD from Cumhuriyet University (Turkey) and PhD (‘’Responsiveness of cultured human breast cancer cells to prolactin’’) from University of London King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry (UK).
She has had fellowships from the University of Bristol (UK); International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Italy) and Imperial Cancer Research Fund (London, UK).
She has a speciality in General Surgery from Ankara, Turkey. She has been assigned from the Ministry of Health of Turkey as an attending surgeon to the Breast Units and Gastrointestinal Surgery, and Accident and Emergency Departments of Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical Faculty and Istanbul Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty for four years.
She had a clinical fellowship from Peritoneal Cancer Center in Osaka- Japan under the supervision of Dr. Yutaka Yonemura. She also worked as a visiting surgeon for peritoneal surface malignancies in Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery Medstar Washington Hospital, Washington DC under the supervision of Dr.Paul Sugarbaker.
She has been completed surgical and clinical follow up over the 400 cases with peritoneal metastases in Japan. She has been working as Head of the Peritoneal Malignancy Treatment Centre (Istanbul, Turkey ) since 2013. In 2016, she hold the National Championship in Congres of Peritoneal Surface Malignancies.
She has perfomed over 80 operations in patients with Peritoneal Surface Malignacies in Turkey since she has established the centre. Mainly she performs surgery for breast disease including breast cancer and gastrointestinal malignancies (colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, gastric cancer, ovarian cancer). If, in need for the areas mentioned hyperthermic intraoperative intraperitoneal chemotherapy can be added.