Artem Stepanyan
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Artem Stepanyan (Armenian: Արտեմ Ստեփանյան; born 6 July 1970) is an Armenian gynecologic oncologist based in Yerevan, Armenia. He is known internationally for his contributions to [[cytoreductive surgery]] guidelines and his elected membership of the Council of the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO).
Career and recognition
In 2019, Stepanyan was elected to the Council of the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO), one of six newly appointed council members announced at the 21st ESGO Congress in Athens, alongside Luis Chiva, Jan Persson, and Jalid Sehouli. [1] He served on the council until 2024.
He leads the Gynecologic Oncology Service at Nairi Medical Center in Yerevan, which holds accreditation from ESGO as a centre for advanced ovarian cancer surgery — the only such accredited centre in Armenia. [2] He also holds the position of Head of the Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Advanced Gynecologic Surgery at the National Institute of Health of Armenia.
International guidelines
Stepanyan has been named as a contributor to several international clinical guidelines in gynaecological oncology.
In 2026, he was the second named author and ESGO Chair of the PSOGI–ESGO–ISSPP Lyon consensus on the principles of cytoreductive surgery for peritoneal malignancy, produced by a panel of 148 surgical oncologists across six continents and published in [[The Lancet Oncology]].[3] In the same year, a companion consensus on peritonectomy procedures for peritoneal surface malignancies, on which he was also the second named author, was published in the British Journal of Surgery.[4]
He is also named as a contributor to the 2024 joint guidelines from ESGO, ESHRE, and ESGE on fertility-sparing treatment for patients with cervical and ovarian cancer, published in The Lancet Oncology, [5] and to the 2023 update of the ESGO/ESTRO/ESP guidelines for the management of cervical cancer, published in Virchows Archiv.[6]
He has participated as a named surgical panelist in the ESGO "Meet the Surgeon" educational webinar series, alongside Denis Querleu, Christina Fotopoulou, and Cagatay Taskiran.[7]
References
- ↑ Bizzarri, N (2020). "Report from the 21st meeting of the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO 2019)". International Journal of Gynecological Cancer. 30 (4): 441–447. doi:10.1136/ijgc-2020-001226. PMID 32139437 Check
|pmid=value (help). - ↑ "NAIRI Medical Center, Department of Gynaecological Oncology". European Society of Gynaecological Oncology. 11 June 2020. Retrieved 2026-04-12.
- ↑ Bhatt, A; Stepanyan, A; Al-Niaimi, A (2026). "Principles of cytoreductive surgery for primary and metastatic peritoneal malignancies — the PSOGI–ESGO–ISSPP Lyon consensus". The Lancet Oncology. 27 (4): e181–e194. doi:10.1016/S1470-2045(26)00052-5. PMID 41926971 Check
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Bhatt, A; Stepanyan, A; Moran, BJ (2025). "Peritonectomy procedures for peritoneal surface malignancies: PSOGI-ESGO-ISSPP Lyon consensus". British Journal of Surgery. 112 (6): znaf112. doi:10.1093/bjs/znaf112. PMID 40560098 Check
|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Morice, P; Scambia, G; Abu-Rustum, NR (2024). "Fertility-sparing treatment and follow-up in patients with cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, and borderline ovarian tumours: guidelines from ESGO, ESHRE, and ESGE". The Lancet Oncology. 25 (11): e602–e610. doi:10.1016/S1470-2045(24)00262-6. PMID 39216500 Check
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Cibula, D (2023). "ESGO/ESTRO/ESP guidelines for the management of patients with cervical cancer – Update 2023". Virchows Archiv. 482 (6): 935–966. doi:10.1007/s00428-023-03552-3. PMC 10247855 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 37145263 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ "Meet the Surgeon". European Society of Gynaecological Oncology. Retrieved 2026-04-12.
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