Professor Chang Moo Kang: “Patient-Oriented Pancreatectomy”, a treatment concept of pancreatic disease

Professor Chang Moo Kang (Figure 1) from Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Pancreaticobiliary Cancer Clinic, Yonsei Cancer Center, Severance Hospital, Seoul, Korea, is actively involved in minimally invasive (robotic and laparoscopic) pancreatectomy and pancreatic cancer surgery. Especially, on the basis of “Yonsei Criteria”, he selectively applies minimally invasive radical pancreatectomy to leftside pancreatic cancer patients, proving potential feasibility the patients-oriented surgical approach in treating pancreatic cancer.