John P Hoffman, MD, FACS

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John P. Hoffman, MD, FACS

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Surgery

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Dr. Hoffman's
Patient Stories

Jessica Basciano - Liver Cancer (Bile Duct Cancer) Patient Stories
Beth Brendlinger - Colon Cancer Patient Stories
Josephine Conowall - Pancreatic Cancer Patient Stories
Barbara Cremean - Esophageal Cancer Patient Stories, Leiomyosarcoma Patient Stories
Deborah Dahl - Liver Cancer (Bile Duct Cancer) Patient Stories, Colon Cancer Patient Stories, Risk Assessment Program Breast Cancer Patient Stories
Donald Ebaugh - Liver Cancer (Bile Duct Cancer) Patient Stories
Claude Feninger - Pancreatic Cancer Patient Stories
Rosalie Fox - Breast Cancer Patient Stories, Colon Cancer Patient Stories
Barbara Lanza - Pancreatic Cancer Patient Stories
Novella Lyons - Breast Cancer Patient Stories
Laura Marblestone - Breast Cancer Patient Stories
Maria Mora - Ampullary Cancer Patient Stories
Richard Bellis - Colon Cancer Patient Stories
Genevieve Sliker - Pancreatic Cancer Patient Stories
Norma Snyder - Breast Cancer Patient Stories, Inflammatory Breast Cancer Patient Stories, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Patient Stories, Risk Assessment Program Breast Cancer Patient Stories, Risk Assessment Program Patient Stories
Harvey Stuckley - Anorectal Cancer Patient Stories
Daniel Wolfson - Kidney Cancer Patient Stories

Surgical Oncology

Chief, Pancreaticobiliary Service
Marvin S. Greenberg, MD Chair in Pancreatic Cancer Surgery

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Clinical Expertise:

Liver Cancer; Pancreatic Cancer; Gastrointestinal Cancers; Breast Cancer

Certifications:

American Board of Surgery

I joined Fox Chase in 1986. I entered the field of surgical oncology because it was the field in the mid-1970s that was most interesting to me and the one that needed the most work. When my father developed a metastatic colon cancer in 1978, I was given further motivation to work in this field. This happened when I was in my first year of Surgical Oncology Fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. While there, I took an extra year of training in pancreatic and liver surgery.

My first job after fellowship was as the Director of the Division of Surgical Oncology at Loyola University School of Medicine in Maywood, Illinois. After 6 years there, I moved to Fox Chase, where I could concentrate fully on the treatment and the advancement of treatment for cancer. Since that time, I have seen many wonderful advances in the treatment of many cancers.

Much of my time and effort over the past 20 years here have been spent on the development of the treatment for pancreatic cancer. While we still have a long way to go before this scourge is defeated, I can remember when doctors were against any treatment, surgery or other, for pancreatic cancer because it was so hopeless. We now have many different drugs that have activity against the cancer and are in the process of testing which ones are optimal, both in concert with surgical resection, or alone (when resection is neither possible nor feasible). I still see patients from whom I've resected pancreatic cancer 10 to 18 years ago!

Every day at Fox Chase is a pleasure for me. The entire hospital is composed of people who recognize that every patient is a special cancer fighter, and therefore they all are treated as unique individuals. It is this total institutional dedication, as well as my 30 years of cancer treatment experience, that should convince you to let us take care of you.