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Advisory Board · Medical oncologist · AJCC melanoma staging

Antonio Carlos Buzaid, MD

He helped rewrite how melanoma is staged. Then he came home.

One of Latin America’s most cited medical oncologists. Co-author of the AJCC melanoma staging revisions in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (2001, 2009) and the CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians eighth-edition staging paper (2017). ResearchGate lists 200+ publications and 15,000+ citations.

A staging literature, in numbers

Citation counts below are approximate, drawn from PubMed citing-article totals and publisher pages at the time of writing. They are not PHP Biotech metrics.

  • ~418

    citations, Buzaid et al. JCO 1997 (PMID 9060544)

  • ~3,400

    citations, Balch, Buzaid et al. JCO 2001

  • ~6,000

    citations, Balch et al. JCO 2009 (Buzaid co-author)

  • 45k+

    copies of the Brazilian Manual of Clinical Oncology

Staging is a kind of honesty

The 1997 Journal of Clinical Oncology paper — Buzaid as first author — did not add a drug. It attacked an inadequate staging system and proposed a better one. The 2001 and 2009 AJCC melanoma classifications, and the 2017 eighth-edition paper in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, are the long tail of that argument. PHP Biotech asked him onto the advisory board because a p53 program will eventually need the same habit: classify the disease honestly before claiming a benefit.

A textbook that left the campus

The Brazilian Manual of Clinical Oncology, which he has co-edited since 2002, is in its 10th edition, in Portuguese, Spanish, and English, with more than 45,000 copies sold. Vencer o Câncer is the public-education counterpart. Authority, for him, has always meant making the literature usable.

Appointments

  1. 1982

    M.D. — Rockefeller Foundation award, basic sciences

    University of São Paulo Faculty of Medicine

  2. Arizona

    Hematology/Oncology fellow — Eleanor B. Connell award

    University of Arizona

  3. Yale

    Assistant Professor

    Yale University / Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center

  4. MD Anderson

    Associate Professor; Medical Director, Melanoma and Skin Center

    University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

  5. 1998–

    Co-founded oncology center; later BPSP; now general medical director

    Sírio-Libanês · Beneficência Portuguesa · Hospital Nove de Julho e Samaritano Higienópolis

  6. 2021

    Ronaldo Ribeiro Career Award in Clinical Oncology

    SBOC

Yale, MD Anderson, and a national textbook

Dr. Antonio Carlos Buzaid is one of the most distinguished medical oncologists in Latin America and a globally recognized clinical researcher. He has more than 30 years of clinical oncology experience and an extensive peer-reviewed publication record.

He graduated from the University of São Paulo Faculty of Medicine in 1982, completed a fellowship in Hematology and Oncology at the University of Arizona, then served as Assistant Professor at Yale and later as Associate Professor and Medical Director of the Melanoma and Skin Center at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Returning to Brazil in 1998, he co-founded the oncology center at Hospital Sírio-Libanês and later created the Oncology Center at Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo. He is currently General Medical Director of the Oncology Center of Hospital Nove de Julho e Samaritano Higienópolis. He created the Brazilian Manual of Clinical Oncology, now in its 10th edition, translated into Spanish and English, with more than 45,000 copies sold. He is a co-founder of the public-education project Vencer o Câncer.

Independent indexes

Bibliography and appointments

Everything below is meant to be checked. Empty categories are omitted rather than padded.

Appointments and training

  • M.D., University of São Paulo Faculty of Medicine (FMUSP), 1982 — Rockefeller Foundation award, top student in basic sciences
  • Fellowship in Hematology and Oncology, University of Arizona — Eleanor B. Connell award for best fellow
  • PHP Biotech International Inc. (Advisory Board)
  • Hospital Nove de Julho e Samaritano Higienópolis (General Medical Director, Oncology Center)
  • Former faculty, Yale University and MD Anderson Cancer Center

Awards and memberships

  • Rockefeller Foundation award, FMUSP basic sciences, 1982
  • Eleanor B. Connell award for best fellow, University of Arizona
  • SBOC Ronaldo Ribeiro Career Award in Clinical Oncology, 2021
  • American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
  • Brazilian Society of Clinical Oncology (SBOC)

Independently indexed publications

Indexed on PubMed, Crossref, or Google Patents. Internal, unpublished data is not listed as peer-reviewed work.

  1. Peer-reviewed · 1997

    Critical analysis of the current American Joint Committee on Cancer staging system for cutaneous melanoma and proposal of a new staging system

    Buzaid AC, Ross MI, Balch CM, et al.

    J Clin Oncol. 1997;15(3):1039-1051

    doi:10.1200/JCO.1997.15.3.1039PMID 9060544

    First author. Landmark critique that informed subsequent AJCC melanoma staging. ~418 citations.

  2. Peer-reviewed · 2001

    Final version of the American Joint Committee on Cancer staging system for cutaneous melanoma

    Balch CM, Buzaid AC, Soong SJ, et al.

    J Clin Oncol. 2001;19(16):3635-3648

    doi:10.1200/JCO.2001.19.16.3635PMID 11504745

    Second author. AJCC melanoma staging revision. ~3,400 citations.

  3. Peer-reviewed · 2009

    Final version of 2009 AJCC melanoma staging and classification

    Balch CM, Gershenwald JE, Soong SJ, Thompson JF, Atkins MB, Byrd DR, Buzaid AC, et al.

    J Clin Oncol. 2009;27(36):6199-6206

    doi:10.1200/JCO.2009.23.4799PMID 19917835

    Co-author. Open access (PMC2793035). ~6,000 citations.

  4. Review · 2017

    Melanoma staging: Evidence-based changes in the American Joint Committee on Cancer eighth edition cancer staging manual

    Gershenwald JE, Scolyer RA, Hess KR, et al. (includes Buzaid AC)

    CA Cancer J Clin. 2017;67(6):472-492

    doi:10.3322/caac.21409PMID 29028110

    AJCC eighth-edition melanoma staging. ~2,900 citations.

  5. Book · 2002

    Manual de Oncologia Clínica do Brasil (Brazilian Manual of Clinical Oncology)

    Buzaid AC (co-editor since 2002)

    10th edition; Spanish and English translations; >45,000 copies

    National reference textbook for clinical oncology in Brazil.

  6. Peer-reviewed · 2002

    Sequential biochemotherapy versus chemotherapy for metastatic melanoma: results from a phase III randomized trial

    Eton O, Legha SS, Bedikian AY, Buzaid AC, et al.

    J Clin Oncol. 2002;20(8):2045-2052

    doi:10.1200/JCO.2002.07.044PMID 11956264

    Co-author. Phase III. ~475 citations.

  7. Review · 2014

    Algorithm for the management of metastatic cutaneous melanoma

    Buzaid AC, Agarwala SS, Hauschild A, Atkins M

    Chin Clin Oncol. 2014;3(3):32

    doi:10.3978/j.issn.2304-3865.2014.07.01PMID 25841458

    First author of the review.