In memoriam: Dr. Seng-jaw Soong (1943-2012): Annals of Surgical Oncology Statistician and Statistician Extraordinaire

摘要

Seng-jaw Soong was a member of the Annals of Surgical Oncology Editorial Board (as its statistician), Chair of the Biostatistics Committee for the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC), Vice-Chair of the Melanoma Committee for more than a decade, and Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (Fig. 1). Dr. Soong was indeed a statistician extraordinaire who had a pivotal role in shaping our understanding of melanoma prognosis and staging, as well as being the group statistician for many seminal studies of antiviral therapies. Moreover, he was a mathematical genius, having been one of the first to publish a cancer clinical analysis using the Cox logistic regression analysis as well as other mathematical predictive models that are used by clinicians and researchers worldwide.