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Kyoji Hirai

Kyoji Hirai Division of Thoracic Surgery Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital 1715 Kamakari, Inzai, Chiba 270-1674, Japan 

Biography

Kyoji Hirai, MD, PhD is a clinical researcher and thoracic surgeon.He graduated from Nippon Medical School and is a clinical professor of division of thoracic surgery at Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital. He is a frequent speaker at several medical conferences related to the operative procedure of thoracoscopic surgery and clinical research on thoracic surgery. He is the investigator of a study assessing the less-invasive effects of thoracoscopic surgery and of a study on an oncoprotein, tumor suppressor gene maspin in non-small cell lung cancer. He has multidiscipline achievements on myocardial ischemia and cell adhesion molecules, matrix protease and tumor neovascularization relevant to cancer development and invasion. He also introduced a new method “video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy with lateral thoracotomy for stage II and III thymoma”. 

Dr. Hirai recieved some honors and awards including a Maruyama Memorial Grant,, Kato Memorial Bioscience Grant and Grant-in Aid for Scientific Research.
Dr. Hirai is a councilor and supervisory doctor of the Japanese Thoracic Association for chest Surgery, Japan Surgical Society and a member of International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, and a member of American Association for Cancer Research.

Research Interest

Cancer Research, Oncology ,Clinical Trials ,Pulmonology

Publications

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