E-mail pageMark D. McKee, MDAssociate Professor of SurgeryDr. Mark McKee specializes in the surgical treatment of cancer patients. Surgery is often only one part of a patient's total cancer care. Dr. McKee works closely with other University of Chicago physicians to integrate surgery into a multidisciplinary approach for complex cancer cases. He specializes in surgery for cancers of the gastrointestinal tract--including stomach, colon, and rectal cancers, liver tumors, and pancreas tumors. He has extensive experience in the treatment of malignant melanoma and breast cancer. Cancer that has spread inside the abdomen is not effectively treated by standard surgical procedures. Dr. McKee is able to treat some of these cancers with a combination of cytoreduction surgery and chemotherapy, also known as hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC). He is an expert in performing this procedure--an advanced technique for the treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis. It requires surgically removing cancerous tumors in the abdomen, then delivering a chemotherapy solution to the tumor site, which has been heated to greater than normal body temperature via a tube. This procedure allows the chemotherapy, thought to be more effective when heated, to kill any remaining microscopic cancerous cells in the abdomen. Candidates for this type of treatment include patients with tumors--pseudomyxoma peritoneii, appendix cancer, colorectal cancer, mesothelioma, or primary peritoneal carcinoma--that have spread within the abdominal cavity but not to other areas of the body. Dr. McKee is also an accomplished cancer researcher. He leads a research laboratory investigating new treatment strategies for some of the most difficult to treat tumors. By studying the way the immune system recognizes cancer cells, Dr. McKee's lab is designing cell therapies and vaccine treatments to incorporate with surgery for tumors that are not treated effectively by current methods. For his work, Dr. McKee has been awarded research grants from the American College of Surgeons and the National Cancer Institute. Practice LocationsCenter for Advanced Medicine
University of Chicago Medical Center
Board CertificationsGeneral Surgery
Medical SchoolNorthwestern University, Chicago Internship and ResidencyHarvard New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, MA FellowshipsNational Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
MembershipsAmerican College of Surgeons
Language SpokenEnglish mmckee@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu Office Phone(773) 834-8138 Office Fax(773) 834-4022 Office Postal AddressMark McKee, MD
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Selected PublicationsView a partial list of Dr. McKee's publications through the National Library of Medicine's PubMed online database. |
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