Mikhail Davydov (oncologist)

Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (being a student he worked as a laboratory assistant at the sub-department of operative surgery).

Davydov is known in Russia and abroad as a scientist who dedicated his scientific and practical activities to developing new and improving existing methods of the surgical treatment of lung, esophageal, stomach cancer, mediastinal mass.

He developed a principally new technique of intrapleural gastro-esophageal and esophageal-intestinal anastomoses which is notable for its original technical performance, absolute security and highly adjusted to physiology; the surgical measures have been developed where the results of treatment of lung, esophageal, stomach cancer are improved due to the mediastinal and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection.

He developed and successfully implemented combined esophagectomy with sleeve resection and plasty of trachea in the presence of esophageal cancer complicated by esophageal-tracheal fistula.

Davydov created the school of oncologists-surgeons dealing with problems of detailed diagnosis and the improvement of the cancer treatment with the assistance of the most advanced achievements of the different directions both in the practical and experimental oncology.