GENERAL SURGERY — BREAST AND ENDOCRINE SURGERY · MEMORIAL BAHÇELİEVLER
Prof. Dr. Yeliz Emine Ersoy
Breast and endocrine surgeon, Memorial Bahçelievler Hospital; formerly professor of general surgery, Bezmialem Vakıf University · Memorial Bahçelievler Hospital
General surgeon specialising in breast and endocrine surgery. She graduated from Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine in 1999 and completed general surgery training there in 2005. She was an observer in breast cancer surgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center (2005) and in endoscopic breast surgery and cryotherapy at Kameda Medical Center, Japan (2016). She was on the Bezmialem Vakıf University faculty from 2010 to 2026 — associate professor 2012, professor 2018 — and joined Memorial Bahçelievler Hospital in 2026. She is a co-investigator in the Turkish NEOSENTITURK trials on sentinel lymph node biopsy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in node-positive breast cancer.
Specialties:
Breast Cancer
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Europe PMC records
Breast cancer surgeryBenign breast diseaseSentinel lymph node biopsy after neoadjuvant chemotherapyThyroid surgeryParathyroid surgeryAdrenal surgery
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CONSULTATION LANGUAGES
Turkish
English
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ISTANBUL · 08/2026
EDUCATION & CAREER
Timeline
1993-1999
MD, Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine
1999-2005
General surgery residency, Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine
2005
Breast cancer observership, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
2010-2012
General surgery specialist, Bezmialem Vakıf University
2012-2018
Associate professor, Bezmialem Vakıf University
2016
Endoscopic breast surgery and cryotherapy observership, Kameda Medical Center, Japan
2018-2026
Professor of general surgery, Bezmialem Vakıf University
2026-
Breast and endocrine surgery, Memorial Bahçelievler Hospital
PUBLICATIONS
Scientific work
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2025JAMA Surgery«De-escalation of nodal surgery in clinically node-positive breast cancer»
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2025Annals of Surgical Oncology«Breast cancer recurrence in initially clinically node-positive patients undergoing sentinel lymph node biopsy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in the NEOSENTITURK trials»
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2021European Journal of Surgical Oncology«Favorable outcome with sentinel lymph node biopsy alone after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in clinically node-positive breast cancer»
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