Surgical Oncologist
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
Dr David Gyorki is a specialist surgical oncologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia with a particular interest in the management of patients with soft tissue sarcoma and melanoma. Dr Gyorki is an Associate Professor within the Department of Surgery at the University of Melbourne and a board director of the Australia and New Zealand Sarcoma Association. A/Prof Gyorki is an active member of the Transatlantic and Australasian Retroperitoneal Sarcoma Working Group and is actively involved in a large registry of patients with this cancer to better understand the disease and the best way to optimise treatment.
A/Prof Gyorki is also involved in translational research in tumour immunology and is particularly interested in understanding tumour dormancy and the role of novel immunotherapy agents to reduce the risk of recurrence for patients having surgery for cancer.