GI Specialist Discusses Hurdles in Targeting Gastric

Alok A. Khorana, MD, specializes in predictive factors in gastrointestinal oncology and in cancer-associated thrombosis at the Cleveland Clinic, which he joined in 2013. Khorana is the Sondra and Stephen Hardis Chair in Oncology Research and vice chair (Clinical Services) and director of the GI Malignancies Program at the Taussig Cancer Institute, as well as a professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. Previously, he served as an associate professor of Medicine at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center of the University of Rochester. He provided insight on gastric cancer research in an interview with OncLive.