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About Daniel Chung, MD
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- Colon cancer screening
- Familial adenomatous polyposis / Gardner syndrome
- Familial pancreatic cancer
- Hereditary colon cancer
- Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer
- Lynch syndrome
Treats:
- Adult
Locations
Mass General Gastroenterology
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-724-5996
Medical Education
- MD, Harvard Medical School
- Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
American Board Certifications
- Gastroenterology, American Board of Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Research
- Genotype-phenotype correlations in hereditary cancer syndromes.
- Cancer surveillance in hereditary cancer syndromes.
- New approaches to colon cancer screening.
- The hypoxic microenvironment in colon cancer.
- Angiogenesis in colon cancer.
- Molecular genetics of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.
Publications
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Select Publications:
- Mizukami Y, Jo WS, Duerr EM, Gala M, Li J, Zhang XB, Zimmer MA, Iliopoulos O, Zukerberg LR, Lynch MP, Rueda BR, Chung DC. Induction of interleukin-8 preserves the angiogenic response in HIF-1 deficient colon cancer cells. Nature Medicine, 2005, 11:992-97.
- Pino MS, Kikuchi H, Zeng M, Herraiz MT, Sperduti I, Berger D, Park DY, Iafrate AJ, Zukerberg LR, Chung DC. The epithelial to mesenchymal transition is impaired in colon cancer cells with microsatellite instability. Gastroenterology. 2009 Dec 21
- Gala MK, Mizukami Y, Le LP, Moriichi K, Austin T, Yamamoto M, Lauwers GY, Bardeesy N, Chung DC. Germline mutations in oncogene-induced senescence pathways are associated with multiple sessile serrated adenomas. Gastroenterology. 2014;146(2):520-9. PMID: 24512911
- Adar T, Rodgers LH, Shannon KM, Yoshida M, Ma T, Mattia A, Lauwers GY, Iafrate AJ, Chung DC. A tailored approach to BRAF and MLH1 methylation testing in a universal screening program for Lynch syndrome. Mod Pathol. 2017;30(3):440-7. PMID: 28059100.
- Adar T, Rodgers LH, Shannon KM, Yoshida M, Ma T, Mattia A, Lauwers GY, Iafrate AJ, Hartford NM, Oliva E, Chung DC. Universal screening of both endometrial and colon cancers increases the detection of Lynch syndrome. Cancer. 2018 May 11. PMID: 29750335
- Nguyen LH, Goel A, Chung DC. Pathways of colorectal carcinogenesis. Gastroenterology. 2019 Oct 14. pii: S0016-5085(19)41441-8. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2019.08.059. PMID: 3162262
Dr Chung is a very intelligent and knowledgeable man in his field. He is also very supportive when you have an issue that you need more input. He is the best Doctor.
Dr. Chung is great. I wouldn't trade him for the world. He was the only one that was able to diagnose me and I am grateful for that.
I have been seeing him since 2015 he has been great trying to figure out my health issue, resolve it and continue to follow up
Yes, I met Dr. Chung in 1999, I believe it was, and he's been great ever since then. I'm still seeing him now to this day, and I would recommend him anytime, anywhere for any patient that has the issues that I have, which are colon related. He's always been a gentleman, and he's a good person on top of it, which always helps. Thank you.
Exceptional, highly trusted
Dr. Chung was very helpful, responsive, and listened to my concerns fairly.
My provider offered alternative screening procedure since Medicare did not approve an endoscopy.
Dr. Chung is the most highly regarded of all of my care providers. He is the best and that's all I have to say.
Dr Chung clarified the possibilities of what the inherent genetic mutation could do long term if not properly monitored and what monitoring is needed during that time.
Dr. Chung gets top marks. He was attentive and thoughtful, listened to what I had to say, answered my questions clearly and with the depth to address a nuanced and sensitive subject.