offering the best endoscopic treatment, cures gastric anThe department of Gastroenterology of Korea University Anam Hospital with its director SoonHo Um, is known for its extensive scope of treatment, and its leading role in endoscopic field.

There are about 20 medical experts on gastric diseases, endoscopy, liver diseases and pancreas diseases and those include SoonHo Um, HoSang Ryu, YeonSuk Seo in liver clinics, ChangDuk Kim, HongSik Lee in pancreas clinics, and HoonJae Jeon, YoonTae Jin, BoRa Geum in endoscopy. They are playing a leading role in treatment research and development in and out of Korea.

They offer the best treatments providing regular blood test, sonogram and CT scans to prevent liver cancer. They not only use excision or Transcatheter Arterial ChemoEmbolization but high frequency therapy, cryotherapy, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.

Recently they introduced the liver fiberization test to evaluate an exact state of chronic liver diseases and adopt tailored therapies for liver cancer patients, using high frequency therapy, cryotherapy, and radiation therapy.

They succeeded developing and performing a new therapy for liver cancer to inject 'yttrium' in the hepatic artery. Liver transplantation is actively done as well.

They recently applied a new surgical technique called NOTES whereby "scarless" abdominal operations can be performed with an endoscope passed through a natural orifice thus avoiding any external incisions or scars to cure stomach cancer, drawing attention from all around the world. liver diseases