Dr. Julio Lococo is a surgeon, specialist in coloproctology. He has been working for more than 20 years in the Department of Colorectal Surgery at the Hospital Churruca Visca in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is also a surgery professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Dr. Julio Lococo is a certified member of the Sociedad Argentina de Coloproctología and the Asociación Argentina de Cirugía. He is also the author of several scientific papers and book chapters in the area of coloproctology and robotic colorectal surgery.
His main scientific interest is oncology and minimally invasive surgery. He stands out for being one of the first surgeons in Argentina specializing in robotic colorectal surgery, carrying out a program in robotic surgery in Buenos Aires.
Selected publications from PubMed
Analysis and development of the learning curve in robotic colorectal surgery at a specialized center.
Lococo J, Rodríguez C, Pedro L, Mitidieri A, Morgunovsky L, Espíndola F, Rodriguez H, Ferro C, Algieri A, Dezanzo V
J Robot Surg. 2026 Jun 9;20(1) pii: 582. doi: 10.1007/s11701-026-03486-3.
Generic Protocols for the Analytical Validation of Next-Generation Sequencing-Based Circulating Tumor DNA Assays, Version 2.0.
Silvestro A, Baden J, Billings K, Bramlett K, Corner A, Danek T, Deras I, Dickey J, Godsey JH, Guan L, Hutchinson T, Johann DJ, Lee JSH, Lin CJ, Lococo JS, Lopez Ramos D, Richardson AO, Stetson D, Wenz P, Leiman LC
JCO Precis Oncol. 2026 May;10(5):e2501243 doi: 10.1200/PO-25-01243.
Phase II Study of Vismodegib in Patients With SMO- or PTCH1-Mutated Tumors: Results From the National Cancer Institute Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group-American College of Radiology Imaging Network Trial (EAY131) Subprotocol T.
Tsao AS, Song Z, Ho AL, Mehnert JM, Ivy P, Gray RJ, Wang V, McShane LM, Rubinstein LV, Patton DR, Williams PM, Hamilton SR, Takebe N, Ajumally R, Silhavy J, Rahmanian S, Das B, Chen L, Karlovich C, Lococo JS, Tricoli JV, Conley BA, Arteaga CL, Harris LN, O'Dwyer PJ, Chen AP, Flaherty KT
JCO Precis Oncol. 2025 Oct;9:e2500119 doi: 10.1200/PO-25-00119.
Analytical Validation of Blood-Derived Tumor Mutation Burden (bTMB) Assays: A Joint Consensus Recommendation of the BLOODPAC bTMB Analytical Validation Working Group.
Baden J, Sausen M, Anfora AT, D'Auria KM, Dickey J, Godsey JH, Guan L, Lococo JS, Mansfield E, Meier KL, Merriam D, Pawloski T, Shukla S, Stetson D, Stewart MD, Wenz P, Leiman LC
J Mol Diagn. 2025 Oct;27(10):914-919 doi: 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2025.06.008.
Targeted DNA-seq and RNA-seq of Reference Samples with Short-read and Long-read Sequencing.
Gong B, Li D, Łabaj PP, Pan B, Novoradovskaya N, Thierry-Mieg D, Thierry-Mieg J, Chen G, Bergstrom Lucas A, LoCoco JS, Richmond TA, Tseng E, Kusko R, Happe S, Mercer TR, Pabón-Peña C, Salmans M, Tilgner HU, Xiao W, Johann DJ Jr, Jones W, Tong W, Mason CE, Kreil DP, Xu J
Sci Data. 2024 Aug 16;11(1):892 doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-03741-y.
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