Chia-chuan Liu M.D.
Thoracic Surgery
Medical Team: Thoracic Oncology
Current Title
- Attending Physician, Division of Thoracic Surgery, 2002-present
Specialties
- Minimally invasive thoracic surgery for lung and esophageal cancer
Clinical Interests
- Thoracic minimally invasive surgery (Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery)
- Surgery for primary lung cancer
- Surgery for metastatic lung cancer
- Surgery for esophageal cancer and cancer of gastric cardia
- Surgery for mediastinal tumor
- Training program for thoracic minimally invasive surgery
- Taiwan Cancer Database data anaysis focused on esophageal cancer
Languages Spoken
- Mandarin Chinese
- Taiwanese
- English
Education and Training
1985-1992 |
China Medical University, Taiwan, MD, Medicine |
1992-1994 |
Residency, Surgery, Yu-li Veterans Hospital, Taiwan |
1994-2002 |
Fellowship, Surgery, Yu-li Veterans Hospital, Taiwan |
7/2007-9/2007 |
Observership, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, USA |
Professional Experience
2002-present |
Attending Physician, Thoracic Surgery, Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taiwan |
Professional Memberships
- Member, Taiwan Joint Cancer Association
- Member, Taiwan Surgical Association
- Member, Taiwan Society of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery
- Member, Taiwan Society of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
- Member, Taiwan Surgical Society of Gastroenterology
- Member, The Society of Ultrasound in Medicine, R.O.C.
Selected Publications
- Liu CC. Hsu WH. Li WY. Huang MH. Treatment results of 17 patients with diffuse pleural mesothelioma. Annals of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery. 4(5):233-9, 1998 Oct.
- Liu CC. Fahn HJ. Li WY. Wu YC. HuangMH. Wang LS. Lymph node metastasis in squamous cell carcinoma of the Intrathoracic esophagus. Chung Hua i Hsueh Tsa Chih - Chinese Medical Journal. 61(2):77-84, 1998 Feb.
- Wang LS. Chow KC.Liu CC. Chiu JH. p53 gene alternation in squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus detected by PCR-cold SSCP analysis. Proceedings of the National Science Council, Republic of China - Part B, Life Sciences. 22(3):114-21, 1998 Jul.
- Wang LS. Chow KC. Chi KH.Liu CC. Li WY. Chiu JH. Huang MH. Prognosis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: analysis of clinicopathological and biological factors. American Journal of Gastroenterology. 94(7):1933-40, 1999 Jul.
- Wang LS. Chow KC. Li WY.Liu CC. Wu YC. Huang MH. Clinical significance of serum soluble interleukin 2 receptor-ain esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Clinical cancer research. 6:1445-1451, 2000 Apr.
- Hsu LH, Liu CC, Chen C. Expandable metallic stent (Ultraflexä) in a patient with esophageal carcinoma and tracheal invasion. [Abstract]. Proceedings of Annual Congress of Taiwan Society of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Taipei Taiwan, Dec
9th –10th, 2000, p138
- Hsu LH.Liu CC. Lin CY. Yen KL. Chan KY. Self-expandable metallic tracheobronchial stent insertion and endobronchial electrocautery with flexible bronchoscopy: preliminary results at a cancer center. J Formos Med Assoc. 101(6):399-405, 2002
- Tsung SH. Liu CC. Human pulmonary dirofilariasis in Taiwan. J Formos Med Assoc. 102(1):42-45, 2003.
- Hsu LH. Liu CC. Ko JS. Education and experience improve the performance of transbronchial needle aspiration: a learning curve at a cancer center. Chest. 125(2):532-40, 2004 Feb.
- Wang KM, Liu CC, Shih CS, Hsu LH. Extralobar bronchopulmonary sequestration complicated by Nocardia Asteroides infection: a case report. Thorac Med (Taiwan) 2007; 22:367-72
- Hsu LH*, Ko JS, You DL,Liu CC, Chu NM. Transbronchial needle aspiration accurately diagnoses sub-centimetre mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes detected by integrated positron emission tomography and computed tomography. Respirology 2007;12, 848–55
- Liu CC, Wang KM, Hsu LH*. Tracheobronchial self-expanding metallic stents in patients with central airways obstruction. J Bronchol 2008; 15:11-16
- Wang TJ. Shu SH. Lin CW. Chen LF. Lin TC. Chang Chien HS. Chan KY. Lee MY. Wang YA. Huang CJ.Liu CC. Thoracic chordoma: an unusual presentation of the spinal tumor. Am J Med Sci. 335(3):239-41, 2008 Mar.
- Hsu LH,Liu CC, Nobuyama S, Miyazawa T*. Novel use of a disposable curved stent I insertion plastic device for silicone stent placement in patients with limited neck extension. J Bronchol Intervent Pulmonol 2009; 16:15-7
- Hsu LH, Chu NM*,Liu CC, Tsai SYC, You DL, Ko JS, Lu MC, Feng AC. Sex-associated differences in non-small cell lung cancer in the new era: Is gender an independent prognostic factor? Lung Cancer 2009; 66:262-7
- Huang CJ. You DL. Lee PI. Hsu LH.Liu CC. Shih CS. Shih CC. Tseng HC. Characteristics of integrated 18F-FDG PET/CT in Pulmonary Cryptococcosis. Acta Radiol. 50(4):374-8, 2009 May.
- Fang L. Huang CJ. Chuang AY. Tan TD. Liu CC. Chemotherapy-related delayed bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax and lung fibrosis: methotrexate or cyclophosphamide, or both? Clin Respir J. 4(4):254-5, 2010 Oct.
- Wang BY, Shih CS, Liu CC, Hsieh CC. A simple way of gastric tube reconstruction after minimally invasive esophagectomy. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 39(2011) 786-787
- Wang BY, Shih CS,Liu CC. Thoracoscopic enucleation of a gastrointestinal stromal tumor of esophagus. The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon. 2011, 59: 184-192
- Chung-Jen Huang, An-Chen Feng, Wen-Hui Ku, Nei-Min Chu, Chih-Teng Yu, Chia-Chuan Liu, Min-Yuan Lee, Li-Han Hsu, Stella Y.C. Tsai, Chih-Shiun Shih, Chih-Liang Wang. Multimodality Treatment and Long-Term Follow-Up of the Primary Pulmonary Lymphoepthelioma-Like
Carcinoma. Clinical Lung Cancer Sep. 2012;359-362