ThomasYangSunMDMHS

Summary

• Dr. Sun practices both medical oncology and hematology in Pleasanton, CA. He received his medical training at Yale and Stanford. Known for his calm, caring and empathetic demeanor, Dr. Sun considers it the utmost privilege to be able to serve patients who may be confronted with a life-changing diagnosis.
  
  Raised in Vancouver, Canada, Dr. Sun received his B.A. in philosophy from Columbia University, graduating summa cum laude with honors in philosophy. He received his MD and MHS degrees from Yale University where he spent an additional year in the laboratory investigating the tumor microenvironment as a potential target for cancer therapy. He later came to Stanford for internal medicine residency followed by hematology and oncology fellowship, where he was elected a chief fellow and received the Humanism in Medicine award for dedication to patient care.
  
  He has led translational and clinical research to help advance the treatment of aggressive cancers including lung cancers and neuroendocrine tumors. He has published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Science and The Journal of Thoracic Oncology, among others. He has presented his research at national and international conferences including the World Conference on Lung Cancer, American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the European and the North American Neuroendocrine Tumor Societies. He has co-authored a book chapter on the management of stage IV lung cancers.
  
  In his spare time, he reads novels especially fantasy and science fiction.