Brian E. Kadera, MD

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Dr. Kadera's clinical practice includes general surgical oncology, with an emphasis in soft tissue sarcoma and gastrointestinal malignancies (stomach, small bowel, appendiceal, colon, etc.), including minimally invasive and robotically-assisted surgery. He trained in general surgery at UCLA, where he spent two extra years doing full-time cancer research. He studied two important reasons why pancreatic cancer is so resistant to chemotherapy, both because of signaling from fibroblasts that…