Professor Lee Yunseok of Seoul St. Mary's Hospital Receives Best Poster Award from American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons

International Academic Publisher Also Recognizes Study as "Most Cited Research"

Seoul St. Mary's Hospital announced on June 11 that Professor Lee Yunseok of the Department of Colorectal Surgery has received the Best Poster Award from the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons.

According to Seoul St. Mary's Hospital on this day, Professor Lee, as the corresponding author, together with Professor Bae Junghoon of the Department of Colorectal Surgery (first author), received the Best Poster Award at the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons for their research on "The Effect of Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Elderly Patients with Colorectal Cancer." Professor Bae explained, "By identifying the characteristics of colorectal cancer in the elderly and analyzing survival outcomes, we found that the effect can vary depending on the detailed stage in elderly patients. Therefore, different criteria from those for general patients are needed for adjuvant chemotherapy." He added, "This research presents new criteria for postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy in elderly colorectal cancer patients, whose numbers have been rapidly increasing recently."

Another paper was also selected as the most cited paper. The international academic publisher Wiley awarded a certificate to Professor Lee, who participated as the corresponding author, for the paper "Short-term Clinical Comparison of Novel Single-Port Robotic Surgery and Conventional Robotic Surgery for Rectal Cancer," recognizing it as the "most cited study." This paper compared and analyzed the complication rates, pain scores, and length of hospital stay for the two surgical methods, thereby demonstrating the effectiveness and safety of the new single-port robotic surgery for rectal cancer. However, it was noted that the group of patients who underwent the new single-port robotic surgery for rectal cancer included relatively more patients with early-stage cancer, and thus, large-scale studies are needed in the future.

Based on these achievements, Professor Lee was also invited by the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons to give a lecture to global experts in colorectal cancer in the United States. From May 10 to 13 (local time), at the conference held in San Diego, Professor Lee delivered a surgical technique lecture on "Lateral Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection" during the "International Symposium Session," drawing significant attention from American and European physicians for whom pelvic lateral lymph node dissection is not yet a common procedure.

Earlier this year, Professor Lee was invited by the Asia-Pacific Society of Coloproctology to perform a live demonstration of rectal cancer surgery at a national hospital in Malaysia. He shared new knowledge with local medical staff by demonstrating laparoscopic surgical techniques as an alternative to robotic surgery for medical teams who have difficulty accessing robotic surgical equipment due to hospital circumstances.