In this episode, Kevin C. Soares, MD, discusses his path to GI oncology, how immune therapy complements surgical interventions, and shares his thoughts on how the pandemic will impact medical practices.

• Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :14
• About Soares :20
• The interview 1:58
• Can you tell us a little bit about how you chose your specialty and how you got where you are today? 2:39
• How did you decide that you wanted to incorporate researching immunotherapy in these particular diseases? 5:53
• What are you looking at when it comes to immune therapy complementing surgical interventions? 8:48
• How do patients typically respond when you talk about new trials and studies? 12:56
• How did the pandemic impact you and your patients and your practice? What was the last year and a half like? 16:07
• Do you think COVID is going to change the way we practice medicine as a whole? 19:42
• You're seeing these patients with these cysts … what is your role in those patients' cases? 24:45
• Could you talk a little bit about what image-guided ablation is and how it works? 29:00
• When you retire what would you like to have seen happen in this particular space? 33:24
• Soares's one pearl 36:35
• Where to find Soares 37:24

Kevin C. Soares, MD, is a surgical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, with specialty training in hepatopancreatobiliary surgery.

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Disclosures: Jain reports she is a paid freelance writer for Lippincott. Soares reports no relevant financial disclosures.