Sergey N. Novikov (born in 1965) graduated from I.P. Pavlov First Leningrad Medical Institute in 1988 (faculty of general medicine). After his graduation, he entered the residency program in oncology at N.N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology. Since 1988, he has been working in the Department of Radiotherapy (Radiology) at this institute. In 2000, he defended his thesis (candidate of medical sciences); in 2005, he defended his doctoral dissertation in 2 specialties: oncology and radiation diagnostics/radiation therapy. His dissertation studies were focused on the development of new methods of radiation diagnostics (bone marrow scintigraphy, lymphoscintigraphy) in oncology and their use in planning radiotherapy for patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma. These studies resulted in 4 inventions patented and implemented in clinical practice. The inventions constituted the basis for the development of new principles of radiotherapy for patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma, which improved treatment efficacy and safety.
Dr. Novikov continued to work at N.N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology as a research fellow, then leading research fellow, and then head of the Department of Radiotherapy, and head of the Research Department of Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine.
Dr. Novikov has made a significant contribution to the development of several research areas, including brachytherapy and stereotactic radiotherapy for prostate cancer, stereotactic radiotherapy for pancreatic cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer, radiotherapy for breast cancer, radiation diagnostics for the assessment of sentinel lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer, cervical cancer, prostate cancer, and evaluation of the utility of hybrid diagnostic methods (SPECT/CT) in oncology.
Dr. Novikov supervised the implementation of high dose-rate brachytherapy and stereotactic radiotherapy for prostate cancer into clinical practice of N.N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology and other cancer clinics inRussia. In 2017 and 2018, he developed and published clinical guidelines on the use of these methods in clinical practice. So far, the application of these methods at N.N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology ensured effective cure of 900 prostate cancer patients.
Over the last 10 years, Dr. Novikov has been studying the opportunities of stereotactic radiotherapy in the treatment of cancer patients. Currently, about 350 patients with different tumors undergo radiosurgical treatment and stereotactic radiotherapy at N.N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology every year. Specialists assess the efficacy and safety of this unique method of radiotherapy, as well as immune characteristics associated with the application of stereotactic radiotherapy in patients with generalized colorectal cancer, non-small-cell lung cancer, melanoma, and other cancers. Dr. Novikov is one of the editors of the first Russian guideline on radiosurgery and stereotactic radiotherapy of extracranial tumors published in 2020.
Since 2004, Dr. Novikov has been actively involved in the development and implementation of techniques of sentinel lymph node biopsy in clinical practice. He is the author of 6 patents; his studies have contributed to the development of a new direction in radiotherapy–radiation according to individual characteristics of the lymph flow from the primary tumor. This technique of radiotherapy is actively used in patients with breast cancer; its efficacy is being studied in patients with head and neck cancer and cervical cancer. Since 2010, S. N. Novikov has been managing a training program on the technique of sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer patients. More than 100 doctors from different cancer clinics ofRussiahas undergone this training program. More than 4,000 patients have undergone sentinel lymph node biopsy at N.N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology.
Dr. Novikov has published 310 works with 125 of them published between 2016 and 2021. Forty-seven of them are research articles; 37 works were published in journals recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission; 9 articles were published in international journals indexed by Scopus and PubMed. Moreover, over the last 5 years, Dr. Novikov has published 9 tutorials and 8 patents.
