#6 Masatoshi TANAKA, M.D. Physician

・Interventional oncology and hepatology

Masatoshi Tanaka, M.D. Director, Department of Hepatology and Clinical Research Center, Yokokura Hospital 394, Nose, Takada-machi, Miyama, 839-0245, Japan Dr Masatoshi Tanaka graduated Kurume university school of medicine in 1979, and received his PhD degree in Medical Science in 1989. His profession is a diagnosis and treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). He started his carrier of percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) from 1985, intra-arterial embolo-therapy and chemotherapy from 1989, and radiofrequency ablation from 1998. He was a director at the Dept. of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kurume University Medical Center, and is now a director of Hepatology and Clinical Research Center, Yokokura hospital since 2012. He is a board member of Liver Cancer Study Group of Japan, Japanese Society of Gastraenterology, Hepatology and Ultrasonics in medicine, and also a director board member of Asian Conference on Tumor Ablation, and organized 2nd ACTA meeting in 2015.