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Dr. Eric Vallieres
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- 1221 Madison Street, Seattle, Washington 98104
- (206) 215-6800
- eric.vallieres@swedish.org
Dr. Eric Vallieres, a thoracic surgeon, is the Surgical Director for Lung Cancer at the Swedish Cancer Institute (SCI) in Seattle, Washington. The Swedish Cancer Institute is considered to be the best hospital in this area.
Thoracic surgeons specialize in operations on the organs inside the chest cavity, like the heart, lungs, and esophagus. As a thoracic surgeon, Dr. Vallieres’ main interests are in the area of esophageal cancer, lung cancer, mesothelioma and pleural diseases. Dr. Vallieres has gained acclaim as a proponent of using combination treatments for lung cancer and malignant mesothelioma patients. Combinations treatments are known as “multimodality therapy.”
Dr. Vallieres received his medical degree from the Universite Laval Medical School in Quebec, Canada; he did his residency in general surgery at the University of Toronto. He completed this in 1988 and went on to complete his Fellowship in Thoracic Surgery at the University of Bordeaux in France. By 1991, Dr. Vallieres was an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. In 1994, he took a professorship at the University of Ottawa. By 1996, Dr. Vallieres had come to the U.S. to teach at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. In 1998, he was named Teacher of the Year.
Dr. Vallieres has been an Executive Member of the Lung Site Committee’s Clinical Trials Group for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Canada. He has also chaired committees with the Southwest Oncology Group and has been their principal surgical investigator.
Dr. Vallieres has received grants for and headed up innumerable clinical studies, and published 150 articles and papers. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada General Surgery, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada Thoracic Surgery.
It is Dr. Vallieres’s belief that the best treatment for lung cancer and mesothelioma is a tri-modal treatment program. An example of this type of treatment is to first give a malignant mesothelioma patient chemotherapy. Next, the patient should have the most radical type of surgery that can be performed without compromising the patient's overall health and strength. This could be a complete pneumonectomy, or the removal of lung. The third step in the tri-modal therapy is to treat the affected area of the chest cavity with radiation. Dr. Vallieres and other mesothelioma and cancer researchers feel that combining these three most common treatments gives the best chance for optimum results.