RECTAL CANCER. DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

Assoc. Dr. Tsanko Tsankov, MD is a hereditary surgeon. He was born in Sofia. In 1984, he graduated in medicine at the Medical Academy - Sofia. He began his practice as a resident in the Surgical Department of the Regional Hospital - Botevgrad. Since 1988, he has been working in the Surgical Clinic of the Transport Hospital - Sofia (today, "Tsar Boris III" NMTB). He was the deputy head of the Surgery Clinic. He advanced as a surgeon in the field of abdominal surgery, mainly colorectal, coloproctology, and mammary gland surgery. In 2013, after passing a competition, he became the head of the Second Surgical Department at the 5th Medical Hospital Sofia (today "Princess Clementina" Medical Hospital EAD).

Assoc. Dr. Tsanko Tsankov acquired a specialty in general surgery in 1990. In 1993 and 1999 he specialized in laparoscopic surgery. He is included in courses of leading clinics in Bulgaria on colon and rectal surgery, biliary-liver surgery, imaging diagnostics of the mammary gland, a course on pediatric surgery. He has scientific research and practical experience in the field of proctological surgery, colon, biliary-hepatic surgery, mammology, inguinal canal surgery. In 2007, he obtained the scientific and educational degree "doctor" after defending his dissertation work "Recto-perineal abscesses and fistulas - terminology, diagnosis, surgical treatment". In 2009, he was awarded the academic title of "associate professor" by a decision of the VAK. The author has 90 publications on problems of surgery, published in scientific journals in Bulgaria and abroad. Participated with reports in a number of national symposia and conferences. He is a member of the Bulgarian Medical Union, the Bulgarian Surgical Society and the Bulgarian Coloproctology Society.