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Victor Kok
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
525 Points

Contributions by role

Author 370
Reviewer 155

Contributions by subject area

Emergency and Critical Care
Infectious Diseases
Internal Medicine
Pathology
Epidemiology
Geriatrics
Global Health
Orthopedics
Respiratory Medicine
Bioinformatics
Molecular Biology
Drugs and Devices
Nephrology
Surgery and Surgical Specialties
Urology
Dentistry
Immunology
Public Health
Rheumatology
Oncology
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Hematology

Victor C. Kok

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Dr. Victor C. Kok is the medical director of Kuang Tien General Hospital Cancer Center, Taichung, Taiwan. He obtained his MD and MMedSc degrees from Chung Shan Medical University, Taiwan, and a Ph.D. from the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Asia University Taiwan. Victor Kok trained as a medical oncologist at the Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taipei. He was board-certified in the Medical Oncology Certification Exam at the European Society for Medical Oncology and Taiwan Oncology Society. He pioneered the medical oncology program at Changhua Christian Hospital Taiwan. After that, he joined Asia University as an assistant professor. Dr. Kok graduated from the Harvard Medical School High-Impact Cancer Research-Cancer Biology and Therapeutics Program 2018/2019, Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Kok has been awarded Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) and is now an active member of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the Japan Cancer Association (JCA), the Taiwan Society of Internal Medicine, and the Taiwan Oncology Society. VC Kok's research interests include clinical cancer research, cancer epidemiology, bioinformatics, medical oncology, internal medicine, palliative care, and clinical and population-based disease informatics. He is now an associate editor for Cancer Medicine (WILEY) and an editorial board member for the flagship journal, BMC Medicine.

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Work details

Director of Cancer Center

Kuang Tien General Hospital
September 2003
KTGH Cancer Center

Asst. Prof

Asia University Taiwan
Department of Biomedical Informatics

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 3
  • Reviewed 3
November 27, 2017
Diagnostic value of serum procalcitonin, lactate, and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein for predicting bacteremia in adult patients in the emergency department
Chiung-Tsung Lin, Jang-Jih Lu, Yu-Ching Chen, Victor C. Kok, Jorng-Tzong Horng
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4094 PubMed 29201568
October 27, 2016
Risk and clinical predictors of osteoporotic fracture in East Asian patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a population-based cohort study
Ping-Hsueh Lee, Victor C. Kok, Po-Liang Chou, Ming-Chang Ku, Yu-Ching Chen, Jorng-Tzong Horng
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2634 PubMed 27812429
September 28, 2016
Identify potential drugs for cardiovascular diseases caused by stress-induced genes in vascular smooth muscle cells
Chien-Hung Huang, Jin-Shuei Ciou, Shun-Tsung Chen, Victor C. Kok, Yi Chung, Jeffrey J. P. Tsai, Nilubon Kurubanjerdjit, Chi-Ying F. Huang, Ka-Lok Ng
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2478 PubMed 27703845

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October 17, 2022
Hand port-site infection after hand-assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy for living-donor kidney transplantation: a retrospective cohort study
Takahisa Hiramitsu, Toshihide Tomosugi, Kenta Futamura, Manabu Okada, Norihiko Goto, Toshihiro Ichimori, Shunji Narumi, Kazuharu Uchida, Yoshihiko Watarai
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14215 PubMed 36275464
September 9, 2019
Rituximab increases the risk of hepatitis B virus reactivation in non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients who are hepatitis B surface antigen-positive or have resolved hepatitis B virus infection in a real-world setting: a retrospective study
Yu-Fen Tsai, Ching-I Yang, Jeng-Shiun Du, Ming-Hui Lin, Shih-Hao Tang, Hui-Ching Wang, Shih-Feng Cho, Yi-Chang Liu, Yu-Chieh Su, Chia-Yen Dai, Hui-Hua Hsiao
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7481 PubMed 31565551
June 20, 2018
Patients with chronic periodontitis present increased risk for primary Sjögren syndrome: a nationwide population-based cohort study
Tai-Chen Lin, Chien-Fang Tseng, Yu-Hsun Wang, Hui-Chieh Yu, Yu-Chao Chang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5109 PubMed 29942713