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South Russian
Journal of Cancer
Южно-Российский A N N I V E R S A RY
онкологический журнал
Vol. 5
No. 4, 2024
YURI S. SIDORENKO
RAS academician
Doctor of Medical Sciences
Professor
Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation
Laureate of the RSFSR State Prize in the field of science and technology
Honored Innovator of the RSFSR
Laureate of the I. I. Mechnikov Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Awarded with: the Order of the Badge of Honor, the Order of Friendship,
the Medal of the Russian Federation Ministry of Health
"For Serving to National Healthcare"
Yu. S. Sidorenko is a well-known oncological gynecologist and specialist in the field of clinical oncology and
pathophysiology, an author of more than 800 scientific paper works, including 30 monographs, ha has 398 copyright
certificates and patents for inventions.
Dr. Sidorenko was born on November 8, 1939 in Kherson city. After graduation from Uzhhorod State University, he was
working in various medical institutions in the Transcarpathian region and in Novocherkassk, Rostov region, in the period
from 1968 to 1972. He was a clinical resident since 1972, then a postgraduate student at the Rostov Research Institute
of Oncology. In 1978, Sidorenko Yu. S. defended his PhD work on the topic of "Endolymphatic polychemotherapy in the
treatment of cervical cancer." Sir Yuri Sidorenko was the chief physician of the city hospital No. 20 in Rostov-on-D on in the
period from 1979 to 1982.
From March 1982 to August 2010, he was the director of the Rostov Cancer Research Institute. Dr. Sidorenko defended
his doctoral dissertation called "Some aspects of diagnosis, treatment and medical examination of oncogynecological
patients" in 1988.
In the period from 1986 to 2001, the Institute has hosted the III All- Russian Congress of Oncologists (1986), the meeting
of directors of research Institutes of Oncology and Radiology of the USSR (1989), IV (1995) and VI (2005) congresses of
oncologists of Russia, the Plenum of the Board of the Scientific Oncological Society (1999) and the II All-R ussian Congress
of pediatric oncologists (2001).
The scientific research conducted by academician Sidorenko Yu. S. included the development of new, non-traditional
approaches to the complex treatment of malignant diseases, in particular, to the chemotherapy with auto-biological
solvents, i. e. autohemochemotherapy, autolymphochemotherapy, homohemochemotherapy and homolymphochemotherapy,
endolymphatic chemotherapy, intraperitoneal permanent and interstitial chemotherapy. The implication of these biological
components at that time made it possible to increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy. For this cycle of works Academician
Sidorenko Yu. S. was awarded the I. I. Mechnikov Prize in Physiology at the Russian Academy of Sciences (2008).
Dr. Sidorenko introduced an original cancer screening system in non-manifested form and proposed a number of organ-
preserving and functionally sparing operations, for the development of which the author was awarded the State Prize of
the RSFSR. He also created a model of original population- based cancer screening based on the psychological principle of
self-formation of groups with increased cancer risk through patient self-observation and self-control.
In 1997 Sidorenko Yu. S. was elected to the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences as a corresponding member of the
Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. He became the Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences in 1999,
and since 2006 an Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Sidorenko is a man of encyclopedic knowledge and erudition. He is a fine connoisseur and an expert in painting,
literature and the national culture of the country. Sidorenko Yu. S. is outstanding for a holistic perception of life, his personality
combines refined intelligence and broad- spectrum education, benevolence and dedication of the true teacher, intuition and
experience of a practical surgeon, fundamental knowledge and precise scientific foresight of a natural scientist, wisdom
and confidence of the true leader.
The staff of the National Medical Research Center of Oncology wholeheartedly congratulates Dr. Sidorenko on his
anniversary. We sincerely wish him happiness, great health, never-e nding creativity, and lots of love from his loved ones.
The staff of the National Medical Research Center for Oncology,
the Russian Federation Ministry of Health
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