▲ At the 2021 Doosan Yonkang Surgical Academic Awards Ceremony on the 6th, (from left) Korean Surgical Society Chairman Seo Kyung-seok, Doosan Yonkang Foundation Chairman Park Yong-hyeon, Busan Baek Hospital Associate Professor Lee An-bok, Wonju Severance Hospital Clinical Professor Jeong Pil-yeong, Ajou University Hospital Professor Han Sang-wook, and Korean Surgical Society Chairman Lee Woo-yong are taking a commemorative photo.

On the 6th, Doosan Yonkang Foundation (Chairman Yong-Hyun Park) held the '2021 Doosan Yonkang Surgical Academic Award' ceremony at the Swiss Grand Hotel in Hongun-dong, Seoul, and awarded Professor Sang-Wook Han of the Department of Gastroenterology at Ajou University Hospital with 20 million won, and clinical instructor Pil-Young Jeong of the Department of Trauma and Critical Care Surgery at Wonju Severance Hospital and Associate Professor An-Bok Lee of the Department of Breast Surgery at Busan Baek Hospital with 10 million won each and a plaque.

Professor Sang-Wook Han was selected as the winner for his thesis titled 'Long-Term Outcomes of Laparoscopic Distal Gastrectomy* for Locally Advanced Gastric Cancer: The KLASS-02-RCT Randomized Clinical Trial', which confirmed that laparoscopic surgery has fewer complications than open surgery and that the 3-year recurrence-free rate is almost the same as that of open surgery.
*gastrectomy: Surgery to remove the lower part of the stomach

In his paper titled ‘The efficacy of the "no zone" approach for the assessment of traumatic neck injury: a case-control study’, clinical instructor Jeong Pil-yeong analyzed that when deciding on a treatment method for traumatic cervical injury, there has been a recent trend of deciding on a treatment method based on the patient’s complaints about his or her body.

In his paper titled ‘The Role of Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio and Platelet-lymphocyte Ratio in Predicting Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Response in Breast Cancer’, Associate Professor Lee Ahn-bok suggested the possibility of predicting the survival rate and recurrence rate of breast cancer patients through the neutrophil-lymphocyte and platelet-lymphocyte ratios when neoadjuvant chemotherapy is administered to breast cancer patients.

The Doosan Yonkang Surgical Academic Awards were established in 2007 to promote the development of Korean surgery and to encourage the research motivation of surgeons, and has been awarded to 34 people over the past 15 years.