Dr. Marcia Cruz directs the Gastroenterology Oncology Program at the University of Puerto Rico Cancer Center and the Division of Cancer Biology. This programme focuses research on the genetics, nutrition, and chemoprevention of gastrointestinal cancer among Hispanic patients. He has published more than 100 scientific papers and articles that have given him national and international recognition.
She is currently a memberof the Board of Governors of the American Gastroenterological Association (2016-2019) and was president of the Puerto Rican Association of Gastroenterology (2009-11). She is co-director and principal investigator of the Puerto Rico Clinical and Translational Research Consortium of the UPR Medical Sciences Campus, principal investigator of the U54-Cancer Partnership with MD Anderson University in Houston, TX. She also serves as president of the Puerto Rico Colorectal Cancer Coalition.
Dr. Marcia Cruz Correa was the first Puerto Rican to be appointed as a member of the National Cancer Advisory Board by President Barak Obama for the 2011-2016 term.
With these credentials of medical excellence that set the quality of our country's medical class high, today we welcome Dr. Marcia Cruz Correa, who joins our faculty, directing the new Oncology Gastroenterology Centre at the Dr. Isaac González Martínez Oncology Hospital.
Gastroenterology Oncology is the subspecialty of internal medicine that focuses on pre-malignant and malignant conditions of the gastrointestinal tract. We focus on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of these conditions through endoscopic studies and genetic and molecular testing of tumours. Among the pre-malignant conditions we treat are: Baretts' oesophagus, gastric metaplasia, gastrointestinal polyps, anal dysplasia, and pancreatic cysts. Among the cancers or malignant conditions our team focuses on oesophageal, gastric, intestinal, colonic and pancreatic cancers.
