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- Position
- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology
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- Specialties
- Hematology-Oncology
- Cancer (Oncology)
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- Languages
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- English
- Spanish
- Taiwanese
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- Hospital Affiliations
- Mount Sinai Queens
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
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- Phone
- Mount Sinai Queens Infusion Center 718-808-7372718-808-7372
- Ruttenberg Treatment Center 212-241-6756212-241-6756
He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and is on staff at the Tisch Cancer Institute of the Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai Queens Infusion Center. He received his medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical Center. He then completed a residency program in internal medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center of Albert Einstein College of Medicine followed by a fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at Mount Sinai. There he served as Chief Fellow and was recognized with the 2012 Mount Sinai Physician of the Year, Fellow award.
Dr. Tsao is a board certified in internal medicine, hematology, and medical oncology. He is actively involved in research on the development of novel therapies in the treatment of genitourinary cancers. He is the recipient of several Merit Awards given by the American Society of Clinical Oncology. His main focus is in defining clinical and molecular phenotype of prostate, kidney, and bladder cancers, as well as novel therapies in those disease states. He is a lead investigator in several ongoing clinical trials and has authored over 40 peer-reviewed publications.
Dr. Tsao is also a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Association of Oncology Research, and the American Society of Hematology.
Certifications
Hematology
Medical Oncology
American Board of Internal Medicine
Education
MD, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Residency, Internal Medicine
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Fellowship, Hematology/Oncology
Mount Sinai Hospital
Languages
Chinese (Mandarin), English, Spanish, Taiwanese
2012
Physician of the Year, Fellow Award
Mount Sinai Hospital
2012
GU Cancers Merit Award
American Society of Clinical Oncology
2012
Merit Award
American Society of Clinical Oncology
2011
Oncology Trainee Travel Award
American Society of Clinical Oncology
2011
Workshop on Methods in Clinical Cancer Research
ASCO/AACR
Genitourinary Cancers
Prostate Cancer, Kidney Cancer, Bladder Cancer, Testicular Cancer, and Adrenal Cancer.
Tsao CK, Galsky MD, Oh WK. Is Metastatic Prostate Cancer Changing, and How Will We Know It? It's Time for Standard Nomenclature for Nonosseous Metastases in Clinical Trials of Patients with Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer. European urology 2014 Jan;.
Seng S, Liu Z, Chiu SK, Proverbs-Singh T, Sonpavde G, Choueiri TK, Tsao CK, Yu M, Hahn NM, Oh WK, Galsky MD. Risk of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer treated with Cisplatin: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2012 Dec; 30(35).
Proverbs-Singh T, Chiu SK, Liu Z, Seng S, Sonpavde G, Choueiri TK, Tsao CK, Yu M, Hahn NM, Oh WK, Galsky MD. Arterial thromboembolism in cancer patients treated with cisplatin: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2012 Dec; 104(23).
Tsao CK, Oh WK. Urological cancer: Enzalutamide in metastatic CRPC-old dog, new tricks. Nature reviews. Clinical oncology 2012 Nov; 9(11).
Small AC, Tsao CK, Moshier EL, Gartrell BA, Wisnivesky JP, Godbold JH, Smith CB, Sonpavde G, Oh WK, Galsky MD. Prevalence and characteristics of patients with metastatic cancer who receive no anticancer therapy. Cancer 2012 Jun;.
Tsao CK, Small AC, Galsky MD, Oh WK. Overcoming castration resistance in prostate cancer. Current opinion in urology 2012 May; 22(3).
Tsao C, Galsky MD, Small AC, Yee T, Oh WK. Targeting the Androgen Receptor Signaling Axis in Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer. British Journal of Urology-International;.
Tsao CK, Moshier E, Seng SM, Godbold J, Grossman S, Winston J, Oh WK, Galsky MD. Impact of the CKD-EPI equation for estimating renal function on eligibility for cisplatin-based chemotherapy in patients with urothelial cancer. Clinical genitourinary cancer 2012 Mar; 10(1).
Tsao CK, Oh WK. Selective cell death mediated by small conditional RNAs: a novel therapeutic approach to cancer therapy. Asian journal of andrology 2011 Mar; 13(2).
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Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Tsao during 2016 and/or 2017. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
Scientific Advisory Board:
- AstraZeneca
- Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation
- Genentech, Inc.
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