Izuma Nakayama
Japan
Dr. Nakayama is a GI medical oncologist at the National Cancer Center Hospital East, Japan. He specializes in the clinical development of new anti-cancer therapies for GI cancers, particularly gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancers. His work is dedicated to clinical and translational research in gastric cancer, with a special focus on early-onset and scirrhous-type gastric cancer, which represents a hard-to-treat subset characterized by peritoneal metastasis.