{"entity":{"id":"kang-won-ki","kind":"person","name":"Won Ki Kang","aka":[],"tldr":"A senior gastric cancer oncologist whose adjuvant and perioperative trials in Korea helped define post-gastrectomy chemotherapy.","summary":"Won Ki Kang is Professor of Medical Oncology at Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, specialising in gastrointestinal oncology. A senior gastric cancer oncologist, he has led Korean multicentre trials including the ARTIST studies of adjuvant chemoradiation, which helped define chemotherapy after gastrectomy, and has been an investigator on first-line immunotherapy trials such as CheckMate 649 and on HER2 trials. His publications include the ARTIST phase 3 trial of adjuvant capecitabine and cisplatin with or without radiotherapy in D2-resected gastric cancer. His interests are gastric cancer, adjuvant chemotherapy and clinical trials.","asOf":"2026-09-08","links":[{"label":"Samsung Medical Center","url":"https://www.samsunghospital.com/gb/"},{"label":"PubMed author search","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Kang%20WK%5BAuthor%5D%20gastric%20cancer%20Samsung"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["gastric"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["samsung-medical-center"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":["checkmate-649"],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Professor of Medical Oncology; gastrointestinal oncology","institutionId":"samsung-medical-center","specialisms":["Gastric cancer","Adjuvant chemotherapy","Clinical trials"],"profiles":[{"label":"Samsung Medical Center","url":"https://www.samsunghospital.com/gb/"},{"label":"PubMed author search","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Kang%20WK%5BAuthor%5D%20gastric%20cancer%20Samsung"}],"papers":[{"title":"Phase III trial of adjuvant capecitabine/cisplatin with or without radiotherapy in D2-resected gastric cancer (ARTIST)","journal":"Journal of Clinical Oncology","year":2012,"doi":"10.1200/JCO.2011.39.1953"}],"orcid":"0000-0002-7194-2404"},"route":"/people/kang-won-ki/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"gastric","kind":"cancer","name":"Gastric & gastro-oesophageal junction cancer","route":"/cancers/gastric/"}],"institution":[{"id":"samsung-medical-center","kind":"institution","name":"Samsung Medical Center","route":"/institutions/samsung-medical-center/"}],"trial":[{"id":"checkmate-649","kind":"trial","name":"CheckMate 649","route":"/trials/checkmate-649/"}]}}