User:Finola.c/sandbox/Dr Kris Chatamra

Professor Dr Kris Chatamra was educated in the UK and came back to Thailand after thirty years as a senior clinician and an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was also awarded the prestigious, Buckston Browne Award for medical research on the liver, in addition to the Cutler’s Award for surgical research.

[His post-doctoral thesis, M.D. London, was on the regeneration of the liver]. He is now the Honorary Director and founder of the Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer, [QSCBC,] a centre of excellence for breast cancer which cares for all women, but primarily the under-privileged. He extended the project to form the Queen Sirikit Centre Foundation which raises funds to organize breast and cervical cancer screening projects in the slum communities; research and treatment at the Queen Sirikit Centre and the ‘Pink Park’ project, a convalescence, cancer rehabilitation and end of life care home for the poorest cancer patients in Thailand. The QSCBC has also organized the only national breast cancer  awareness campaign  to educate the public about the risks of the disease. The photographic campaign is produced annually in October for international breast cancer month. His interest in surgical oncology began in 1979 when he was a clinician and lecturer at the Royal Marsden Hospital, the UK’S premier cancer hospital and his main interest has remained upper gastro-intestinal and breast cancer. His research interests have included, introducing breast conservation for breast cancer 29 years ago in Thailand; initiating intra-operative radiotherapy for breast cancer in S.E. Asia and the treatment of locally advanced breast cancer using the body tissue omentum. His latest research work is the use of immunotherapy to treat breast cancer. His vision is to always maintain the highest level of diagnosis and treatment, for example the introduction of 3D mammography and CT mammography were the first non-prototype equipment installed in the world. The dedicated MRI machine remains the first and only equipment of its type available in Thailand. Nano String PAM 50 technology is also available to evaluate, patient gene profile and the cancer risk level for each individual patient, so that treatment can be adjusted accordingly.

In 2021, in collaboration with other doctors and scientists, he led the team which cured the first breast cancer patient of metastatic cancer using a completely new approach to treatment, using immunotherapy. The patient was no longer responding to conventional treatment, surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy and at the terminal stage, suffering with cancer in her liver, lungs and bone, she was offered, on compassionate grounds, a new method of immunotherapy devised at the QSCBC.



The QSCBC Foundation’s work and projects, through fundraising, have been built up over twenty- five years, including its latest project, ‘ Pink Park’, which will offer a clean and safe facility for the poorest patients to recover from breast cancer and a hospice, so that patients can pass away with dignity.

He was awarded the Order of the Chula Chom Klao by the previous king, His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej for services to the nation.

Dr Kris Chatamra works on an honorary basis. He remains committed to trying to provide the best service possible to all women, especially the underprivileged.

Personal life
He was born on April 30, 1945.

Education & Achievements
Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons, Royal College Surgeons of England, England

Doctor of Medicine, University of London, England

Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Faculty of Medicine, University of London, England

Immunotherapy

 * 1) IMMUNOTHERAPY: THE FINAL PATH TOWARDS THE CURE OF BREAST CANCER, writer by Thai Red Cross Society, published on March 4, 2020
 * 2) Medical miracle: "A new experimental immunotherapy-based approach is raising hopes of a potential cure for breast cancer", writer by Parinyaporn Pajee The Nation form Bangkok Post, published on September 03, 2018
 * 3) Results of intraoperative radiotherapy given as a boost after breast conserving-surgery: NIH (National Library of Medicine: National Centre for Biotechnology Information)

Pink Park Village

 * 1) Dying with Dignity: "The soon-to-open Pink Park Village, which combines a hospice for the terminally ill and underprivileged as well as convalescence services, is reliant on people's genorosity. You too can do your bit." writer by Yvonne Bohwongprasert form The Nation Thailand, published on March 30, 2021.
 * 2) Institution: Excellent Award by Thai Association of Landscape Architects, Awards on 2019.

The Medical and Science Journal

 * 1) LOCALLY ADVANCED DISEASE: Clinical response and pathological evidence of treating metastatic breast cancer with immunotherapy using stimulated natural dendritic cell pulsed with neoantigen peptides writer by  K. Chatamra, S. Denariyakoon, S.K. Sangkitporn, V. Fongchaiya, P. Hansasuta, D. Boonjunwetvat, S. Sangkitporn, P. Sampatanukul, T. Pisitkun, K. Saksornchai, P. Wongkongkathep, P. Boonchu, C. Yodtup, P. Pairoh, A. Chulakadabba on The Breast Online published on April 1, 2021
 * 2) Results of intraoperative radiotherapy given as a boost after breast conserving-surgery. by Gland Surgery published on August 6, 2020.
 * 3) Breast Cancer, author by Dr. Kris Chatamra on Expat Life Thailand. published on October 15, 2019.
 * 4) Breast Cancer in Asia: The Challenge and Response, A report from The Economist Intelligent Unit. published by World Cancer Economist, 2016.
 * 5) IMPACT OF CPG SITE SPECIFIC METHYLATION ON SILENCING PROTEIN EXPRESSION OF GSTP1 IN BREAST CANCER, writer by Valla Fongchaiya (BSc), Pichet Sampatanukul (MD., MSc), and Kris Chatamra (MD., FRCS). on Asian Archives of Pathology (The Official Journal of Royal College of Pathologists of Thailand), published on May 27, 2013
 * 6) The Story behind of Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer, its philosophy and outreach projects writer by Khunying Finola Chatamra. The Journal of the Royal Institute of Thailand, published by Thai Science, Volume IV, 2012.
 * 7) The Art and the Science of Medicine or The Science and the Art of Medicine. The Journal of the Royal Institute of Thailand, published by Thai Science, Volume I, 2009.
 * 8) A prospective study of 500 consecutive laparoscopic cholecystectomies: Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, writer by Chesada Sangsubhan (MD.), Chanvit Tanphiphat (MD.), Taveesin Tanprayoon (MD.), Kris Chatamra (MD.). on Chula Med Journal, published on February, 1995

Works cites

 * 1) OPD Clinic at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, The Thai Red Cross. [the Director of Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer].
 * 2) OPD Clinic at Medpark Hospital.
 * 3) OPD Clinic at Bumrungrad International Hospital.
 * 4) OPD Clinic at BNH Hospital

Websites (external link)

 * 1) Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer on www.qscbc.org
 * 2) Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer by King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital on [Https://chulalongkornhospital.go.th/kcmh/en/ec/queen-sirikit-centre-for-breast-cancer/ www.chulalongkornhospital.go.th]
 * 3) Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer Foundation on www.qscbcfoundation.org
 * 4) The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) on www.a4m.com
 * 5) Health Trips on www.healthtrip.com

Category:Biographers Category:Breast surgery Category:Breast cancer Category:Immunotherapy Category:1945 births