In memory of the scientist :: DEMIDCHIK Yuri Evgenievich

Yuri Evgenievich Demidchik (14.03.1958 – 13.03.2017) — a scientist in the field of oncology. Corresponding Member (2009). Doctor of Medical Sciences (1998), Professor (2002). Excellence in Healthcare of the Republic of Belarus.

— Graduated from Minsk State Medical Institute (1981).
— Since 1981 - at the Research Institute of Oncology and Medical Radiology of the Ministry of Health of the BSSR.
— Since 1994 - Assistant, Associate Professor, since 1996 - Head of the department of the Belarusian State Medical University.
— In 2009-2014 - Rector of the Public Institution of Education "Belarusian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education", since 2014 - Head of the department of the Belarusian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education.

Scientific works are devoted to the study of molecular genetic mechanisms of the pathogenesis of thyroid carcinomas and ovaries, the development of new methods of diagnosis, treatment and prognosis in oncology. He studied the pathogenesis and clinical course of thyroid cancer, performed a series of works on improving the treatment of this disease. He proposed new methods of diagnosing this neoplasm, based on the analysis of the expression of marker genes in the material of aspiration biopsies. He developed methods for treating patients with forms of metastatic medullary thyroid cancer that are refractory to cytostatics and substantiated the implementation of mediastinal lymph node dissection in this category of patients. Created a comprehensive technology for the restoration of the abdominal wall using cellular autotransplantation of mesenchymal stem cells from adipose tissue in patients with postoperative ventral hernias of large and giant size.

Author of more than 500 scientific papers, incl. 15 monographs (and reference books).