Cancer Surgery

 

Welcome

 

Making a decision for surgery is never easy. When that choice becomes a life-changing event, the more information available to help you make the decision, the more likely you will have a positive outcome.

Because of the substantial effort, both mental and physical required on your part to achieve success, your decision should be made only after careful thought and discussion with your family, your own physicians, and if possible, with other patients who have had this operation.

This site is designed to help provide information and start that process.

 

		Anders R. Merg, MD received a bachelor in science from the University of Minnesota, followed by a doctorate in medicine at the University of Wisconsin. His general surgery training was completed at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics. After practicing general surgery in the Spokane area for one and half years he returned to the University of Iowa, pursuing his interest in oncology, as a surgeon in the division of surgical oncology. This led to a two year surgical oncology fellowship at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York. Having developed an adoration of the Inland Northwest, Dr. Merg returned joining the Surgical Specialists of Spokane and as the program director of the Providence Cancer Center in the summer of 2006. His surgical oncology interests include hepatobiliary, pancreatic, gastrointestinal, sarcoma, and melanoma cancers. He is privileged at Sacred Heart Hospital, Deaconess Hospital, and Holy Family, seeing patients at the Sacred Heart Office.