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Y. Nancy You, MD, MHSc

Professor
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, United States

Dr. You received her college degree from Harvard University and her medical degree from Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. She completed her General Surgery and Fellowship in Colorectal Surgery at the Mayo Clinic. She holds a Masters Degree in Health Sciences from Duke University, where she was a fellow in Clinical Surgical Oncology with the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group (ACOSOG, now ALLIANCE for Clinical Trials in Oncology). Her clinical focus is personalized surgical care for colorectal cancer in coordination with multidisciplinary treatments, emphasizing sphincter-preservation, quality-of-life, and long-term cancer survivorship. She.performs both open and minimally-invasive surgery. She is also the medical director of the Familial High-risk Gastrointestinal Cancer Clinic, providing care to patients and families with inherited cancer syndromes. Her research centers on hereditary cancer predisposition syndromes and on colorectal cancer occurring before age 50. Her research program aims to optimize the survival, the patient experience, and the quality of care of these patients, through clinical registries, treatment and quality-improvement trials, and cancer genetics translational studies.

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