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Dr. Francesco Izzo received his medical degree from the University of Naples, Federico II Medical School, Italy. He completed a general surgery residency at the University of Naples, Italy and then completed a fellowship in Surgical Oncology at the University of Texas Anderson Cancer Center.

Dr. Izzo has been on the faculty in the Department of Surgical Oncology at the National Cancer Institute of Naples, Italy since completing his fellowship. He is now Full Professor of Surgery, Director and Coordinator of the Abdominal and Hepatobiliary Surgical Oncology Division and Chief of Liver Tumor Study Group at the National Cancer Institute of Naples, Italy.

Dr. Izzo's clinical practice and research focuses on surgical oncology new treatments particularly for patients with Hepatobiliary and pancreatic tumors. Dr. Izzo has been a pioneer in designing new treatments for patients with liver tumors, including radiofrequency ablation, improved techniques for surgical removal of liver cancers, and several types of direct tumor injection therapy.

Dr Izzo is principal investigator on a number of National and International protocols for the basic science and clinical treatment on primary and metastatic hepatobiliary cancers Dr. Izzo is the author or co-author of over 220 publications, 18 book chapters, many dealing with the treatment of patients with hepatocellular cancer, gallbladder cancer, bile duct cancer, pancreatic cancer or metastases from a number of different tumor types.