Luncheon with the Experts: Xavier M Keutgen, MD, FACS

Xavier M. Keutgen, Director of the University of Chicago Medicine Neuroendocrine Tumor Center, www.uchicagomedicine.org/find..., was the featured guest for CCF’s Facebook Live Luncheon with the Experts on Thursday, May 26, 2022. A surgical oncologist, Dr. Keutgen has particular expertise in treating neuroendocrine, thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal tumors.
Dr. Keutgen works closely with a multidisciplinary team that specializes in NETs. He is the co-director of the Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) Clinical Care Center, www.uchicagomedicine.org/canc..., and a member of the multidisciplinary thyroid cancer team at the University of Chicago. His clinical interests include minimally invasive (small incision) and robotic surgery as well as advanced complex surgical techniques for resection of neuroendocrine tumor liver metastases. Dr. Keutgen also has a particular interest in neuroendocrine tumor laboratory research, including understanding why some tumors behave more aggressively and developing new drug delivery methods.
Dr. Keutgen is the lead investigator on several clinical trials that focus on new diagnostic and therapeutic methods for endocrine and neuroendocrine tumors. His clinical and laboratory research has been published in Clinical Cancer Research, Cancer, Gastroenterology, Annals of Surgery, Surgery, JACS, Modern Pathology, JCEM and Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, among others.
CCF’s Luncheon with the Experts series features physicians and healthcare professionals, support group leaders, patients, and colleagues who are key opinion leaders in the neuroendocrine cancer community worldwide. This weekly series is presented via Facebook Live on Thursdays from 12 noon to 1 pm, Eastern Time. Join us for unique discussions on a wide variety of topics for everyone in the NET community!
With special thanks to Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, sponsor of the Luncheon with the Experts series. “At Ipsen, patients are the heart of our science.”