Alexandra Gangi, MD
Dr. Alexandra Gangi is double board-certified in General Surgery and Complex General Surgical Oncology. She is the Director of the Gastrointestinal Tumor Program and Cancer Regional Therapies Program at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where she specializes in the surgical management of hepatic-pancreatic-biliary malignancies, abdominal malignancies, and peritoneal malignancies including malignant peritoneal mesothelioma.[1]
Dr. Gangi’s skills include laparoscopic surgery, robotic surgery, and cytoreductive surgery with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy.
Education and Career
Dr. Gangi attended the University of California at Irvine as an undergraduate and then earned her medical degree at the Drexel University College of Medicine. He completed an internship and residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a surgical oncology fellowship at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center. She joined Cedars Sinai after completing her medical education and training.[1]
Research
Dr. Gangi’s research involves collecting tissue from primary and metastatic bowel neuroendocrine tumors and sequencing them to identify differences in their epigenetic signatures. She is also involved in numerous translational and clinical research projects examining the comparative effectiveness of various surgical and medical treatments in gastroesophageal and hepato-pancreatico-biliary malignancies.[1]
Her recent publications include:[1]
Patterns of Failure in Patients With Borderline Resectable/Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer After Preoperative Chemotherapy and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy. May 2024Advances in radiation oncology9(5):101471. Co-authors Chung EM, Lu DJ, Nguyen AT…8 more
Impact of Primary Tumor Resection in the Management of Metastatic Well-Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumors of the Small Bowel and Pancreas Feb 2024European Journal of Surgical Oncology50(2):107379Elsevier BV Co-authorsRusso A, DiPeri T, Tseng J…8 more
Socioeconomic disparities in patients with small bowel neuroendocrine tumors 5 Sep 2023 JOURNAL OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY Co-authors Diperi TP, Manguso N, Gong J…3 more
What Is the Role of Lymph Node Resections in Small Islet Tumors? Sep 2023Advances in surgery57(1):47-58 Co-authors Gangi A, Ferrone CR
Extracellular vesicles in fatty liver promote a metastatic tumor microenvironment 11 Jul 2023CELL METABOLISM35(7) Co-authors Wang Z, Kim SY, Tu W…22 more
