Comprehensive Cancer Treatment Center in Washington

Ryan F. Holbrook, M.D.
Specialty: Surgical Oncologist / Breast Surgeon
President, Cancer Care Northwest

Primary Location
601 S. Sherman, Spokane

Dr. Ryan Holbrook merged his busy practice with Cancer Care Northwest in September 2002. As a surgical oncologist and breast surgeon, he focuses exclusively on cancer surgery and has extensive training and experience in many areas of oncology. He is responsible for bringing several new innovative surgical techniques to the Inland Northwest, including sentinel lymph node biopsy for both melanoma and breast cancer. He has extensive experience in pancreas and liver surgery and introduced cryosurgery and radiofrequency ablation for the treatment of liver cancers. Dr. Holbrook specializes in all cancers of the intestinal tract as well as the surgical treatment of soft tissue sarcomas. He has published numerous articles and given extensive presentations on a wide range of cancer related topics.

Dr. Holbrook received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University and his medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School. He began general surgery training at New England Medical Center in Boston, and completed a clinical fellowship with a joint appointment at Massachusetts General Hospital. He finished his general surgery residency at Maine Medical Center in Portland. Dr. Holbrook then completed a two-year fellowship in surgical oncology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY. His final fellowship was in pancreas, liver and biliary surgery at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. He has been in practice in Spokane since 1995, focusing exclusively on cancer surgery.

Dr. Holbrook is active in a wide range of medical and cancer related organizations. He is the director of Surgical Oncology at Deaconess Medical Center, a member of the board of directors of the American Cancer Society and cofounder of the Inland Northwest Cancer Conference, as well as the past director of the Sacred Heart Cancer and Research Center and former vice-president of the Spokane County Medical Society.

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