Prof. AYTEN KAYI CANGIR

Biography

Ayten KAYI CANGIR, MD,
Professor;FEBTS,
Ankara University Faculty of Medicine,
Department of Thoracic Surgery,
and Ankara University Medical Design Application and Research Center (MEDITAM),
06100, Sıhhiye, Ankara, Turkey

Ayten KAYI CANGIR, MD, Prof.;FEBTS

Thoracic Surgery Specialist

Dr. KAYI CANGIR is a Professor  in the Department of  Thoracic Surgery at  Ankara University , TURKEY. She graduated from Ankara University Medical School in 1991. She followed specialty training in thoracic surgery at the Ankara University and was board-certified in thoracic surgery in 1998. She became associate professor in 2005 and professor in 2012.

Her areas of expertise include lung cancer, malignant mesothelioma, thymic tumors, esophegeal cancer and surgical treatment of thoracic outlet syndorme. She is a member of several national and international medical societies. She has been member of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer since 2009.  Dr. Kayı Cangır is a member of the IASLC Lung Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee, the IASLC the Mesothelioma Committee  and IASLC Thymic Malignancy Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee.

She has multiple publications on prognostic factors, staging, radiomics-histologic correlation, and surgical treatment of  lung cancer, thymic epithelial tumors,and MPM.