Surgical Oncologist
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Chandrajit P. Raut, M.D., M.Sc. is a Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at Mass General Brigham, and Surgeon-in-Chief, Chair of the Department of Surgery, and Surgery Director of the Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, he completed his general surgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and surgical oncology fellowship at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Dr. Raut specializes in the multidisciplinary care of patients with soft tissue sarcoma. He has had multiple NIH R01 grants evaluating an innovative drug-eluting film to be placed in the surgical bed to reduce tumor local recurrence rates. He is PI of a DOD/NIH Cancer Moonshot sarcoma proteogenomic study. He was co-PI on a multi-institutional phase II clinic trial evaluating 5 years of adjuvant imatinib for primary GIST, co-investigator on an international phase III randomized clinical trial evaluating the use of preoperative radiation therapy for retroperitoneal sarcomas, and a member of the NIH/NCI The Cancer Genome Atlas Sarcoma Working Group. He has authored over 300 papers and over 35 book chapters.
Dr. Raut serves as Section Editor for sarcoma in the journals Cancer and Surgical Oncology Insights. He is one of the Chairs of the Surgery Committee for the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology and is the Chair of the sarcoma panel for the 9th edition of the AJCC Stanging Manual.