
Patricio Polanco
@patriciopolanc0
Surgical Oncologist @UTSW_Surgery with expertise in Pancreas/Liver/Peritoneal Malignancies and MIS/Robotic surgery.Tweets & opinions are my own. 🇵🇪 🇦🇷🇺🇸
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Now online Clinical Cancer Research : Preop SAbR in #PancreaticCancer is associated with locoregional control—especially with arterial involvement—and reveals immune activation. Peter Leung was outstanding leading this to pub! #RadOnc UTSW Simmons Cancer Center @UTSWNews bit.ly/457oz6b


Great work of our postdoc Samy Castillo, MD presenting robotic skills decay after training gaps at Association for Surgical Education meeting Even after 3 months of discontinuing training (after proficiency), robotic skills decreased significantly Alert ‼️ PDs. Samy is applying to #GenSurgMatch2026


Stable OR teams contribute to better outcomes🤝✨ Each additional case done by same anesthesiologist-surgeon team 👉 ⬇️ major morbidity 🔓‼Opportunity is knocking: ⬆️outcomes by re-organizing teams How to do it? 🆕📝JAMA Surgery tinyurl.com/yx44pm96


Great work by Julie Hallet showing that surgeons and anesthesiologists who routinely work together have improved postoperative outcomes for patients!

Sub-typing to select NAT in #PDAC? NeoPancONE 🇨🇦 #ASCO25 Canadian Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association 👥84 resectable PDAC 💉mFOLFIRINOX NAT Median OS 34 months😀 🔬Classical vs basal sub-type main predictor EFS & OS What next🤔: sub-type all PDAC prior to chemo? wait for more data? ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JC…



6 years later, hard work pays off. Surreal matching at my dream fellowship. Thankful for Herbert Zeh Adam Yopp Patricio Polanco and all my mentors UTSW Surgery and elsewhere. Wouldn't have made it here without them


Simply, THANK YOU to our UTSW Surgery Residents graduating Chief Residents Jennie Meier Martha Teke, MD John D. Karalis MD Zein Saad Eddin, MD Amr Al Abbas Amanda M. Garza, MD Jillian Jacobson Caitlyn Waldrop @Amrus1992 Jalen Harvey, MD Amy Mickelsen Maisa Nimer,Raghav Chandra,Griffith Olsen, Jenn Gueler. UTSW Surgery


Recent work by our lab showing feasibility as a biomarker in pancreas cancer #ctDNA #Chawlalab Mike Pishvaian Patricio Polanco Lee M. Ocuin MD, FACS Syed A. Ahmad Shishir K. Maithel Eileen M O’Reilly Northwestern Surgery Lurie Cancer Center


So proud of my team Sofía Garcés Palacios, M.D Alexis Desir MD Sharanya! UTSW Surgery Residents

Our article is out in yesterday’s issue! Grateful to all the patients & coauthors who made this possible. Huge thanks to Peter Leung for leading the charge on tissue analysis and bringing it together. A team effort! doi.org/10.1158/1078-0… UTSW Simmons Cancer Center UTSW Radiation Oncology UT Southwestern Medical Center

Patricio Polanco The success of your mentees is a testament to your excellence as a mentor. 👏👏👏UTSW Surgery UTSW Surgery Residents

Thanks UofT Surgical Oncology fellows for the honour of 2025 McCready Cup!🙏🏻😀 Always inspired to see you all grow as surgical oncologists. And so special to receive this from the hands of a #surgonc legend I learned so much from, Dr David McCready💛⭐️ (& nice hat trick for the HPB team)


Congrats Ganesh Sankaran PhD 🇺🇸🇮🇳🇦🇷 & Huu Phong Nguyen! This new publication from our collaborative group highlights the use AI-driven surgical video segmentation using KFAR,a novel tool that will facilitate our efforts towards surgical skills assessment during robotic surgery. UTSW Surgery