▲ At the Doosan Yonkang Surgical Academic Award Ceremony held on the 5th, (from left) Doosan Yonkang Foundation Chairman Park Yong-hyun, Korean Surgical Society Chairman Lee Moon-soo, Korea University Hospital Assistant Professor Choi Yu-jin, Kyungpook National University Hospital Professor Jeong Jin-hyang, National Cancer Center Researcher Ryu Geun-won, and Korean Surgical Society Chairman Lee Woo-yong are taking a commemorative photo.

On the 5th, Doosan Yonkang Foundation (Chairman Yong-Hyun Park) held the '2022 Doosan YonkangSurgical Award' ceremony at the Swiss Grand Hotel in Hongun-dong, Seoul, and awarded 20 million won to researcher Geun-Won Ryu of the National Cancer Center, and 10 million won each to Assistant Professor Yu-Jin Choi of the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery at Korea University Hospital and Professor Jin-Hyang Jeong of the Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery at Kyungpook National University Hospital, along with a plaque.

Professor Geun-Won Ryu was selected as the winner for his thesis titled 'Laparoscopic Sentinel Node Navigation Surgery for stomach Preservation in Patients With Early Gastic Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial', which showed that gastric preserving surgery using sentinel lymph nodes* for early-stage gastric cancer patients improves the health and nutritional status of patients compared to gastrectomy.
*Sentinel Lymph Node: The first lymph node where cancer cells spread through the lymphatic vessels

Professor Yu-Jin Choi discovered a biomarker* that helps diagnose pancreatic cancer through her thesis titled 'Diagnostic model for pancreatic cancer using a multi-biomarker panel'.
*Biomarker: An indicator that can detect changes in the body using proteins or DNA

Professor Jin-Hyang Jeong confirmed in his thesis titled ‘Targeted Axillary Biopsy With Preoperative Utrasound-Guided Tattoing for Suspicious Axillary Lymph Nodes in Patients with Early Breast Cancer’ that in the case of patients suspected of metastasis in preoperative ultrasound examinations for breast cancer, the accuracy of diagnosis can be increased by injecting a marker reagent into the axillary lymph nodes and resecting the marked lymph nodes and sentinel lymph nodes together.

The Doosan Yonkang Surgical Academic Award was established in 2007 to encourage the advancement of Korean surgery and the research motivation of surgeons, and has been awarded to 37 people over the past 16 years.