Issue 13/2014
Content (50 Articles)
Another Brick in the Wall: Toward a Better Understanding of Melanoma of Unknown Primary
David W. Ollila, Michael O. Meyers
Volume-Outcome in Cancer Surgery: Why has the Data Not Affected Policy Change?
Douglas B. Evans, Susan Tsai
The 90-Day Mortality After Pancreatectomy for Cancer Is Double the 30-Day Mortality: More than 20,000 Resections From the National Cancer Data Base
Richard S. Swanson, Christopher M. Pezzi, Katherine Mallin, Ashley M. Loomis, David P. Winchester
Centralization of Esophagectomy: How Far Should We Go?
Daniel Henneman, Johan L. Dikken, Hein Putter, Valery E. P. P. Lemmens, Lydia G. M. Van der Geest, Richard van Hillegersberg, Marcel Verheij, Cornelis J. H. van de Velde, Michel W. J. M. Wouters
Multi-institutional Assessment of Sphincter Preservation for Rectal Cancer
Zaid M. Abdelsattar, Sandra L. Wong, Nancy J. Birkmeyer, Robert K. Cleary, Melissa L. Times, Ryan E. Figg, Nanette Peters, Robert W. Krell, Darrell A. Campbell Jr., Marcia M. Russell, Samantha Hendren
Surgical Management of Bone Metastases: Quality of Evidence and Systematic Review
Thomas J. Wood, Antonella Racano, Herman Yeung, Forough Farrokhyar, Michelle Ghert, Benjamin M. Deheshi
Atypical Lipomatous Tumors: Should They be Treated Like Other Sarcoma or Not? Surgical Consideration from a Bi-Institutional Experience
Chiara Erminia Mussi, Primo Daolio, Matteo Cimino, Fabio Giardina, Rita De Sanctis, Emanuela Morenghi, Antonina Parafioriti, Maria S. Bartoli, Stefano Bastoni, Luca Cozzaglio, Piergiuseppe Colombo, Vittorio Quagliuolo
Triple-Negative Breast Cancer is Not Associated with Increased Likelihood of Nodal Metastases
Alexandra Gangi, James Mirocha, Trista Leong, Armando E. Giuliano
Can Breast Surgeons Provide Breast Cancer Genetic Testing? An American Society of Breast Surgeons Survey
Peter D. Beitsch, Pat W. Whitworth
Is Axillary Lymph Node Dissection Necessary After Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Patients with Mastectomy and Pathological N1 Breast Cancer?
Yun Fu, Debra Chung, Minh-An Cao, Sophia Apple, Helena Chang
High Volumetric Breast Density Predicts Risk for Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal, but not Premenopausal, Korean Women
In Hae Park, Kyungran Ko, Jungnam Joo, Boram Park, So-Youn Jung, Seeyoun Lee, Youngmi Kwon, Han-Sung Kang, Eun Sook Lee, Keun Seok Lee, Jungsil Ro
Rate of Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy is Influenced by Preoperative MRI Recommendations
Chang Xia, Mary C. Schroeder, Ronald J. Weigel, Sonia L. Sugg, Alexandra Thomas
An Investigation into the Serum Thioredoxin, Superoxide Dismutase, Malondialdehyde, and Advanced Oxidation Protein Products in Patients with Breast Cancer
Nedret Kilic, Mine Yavuz Taslipinar, Yildiz Guney, Ercument Tekin, Erhan Onuk
Increased Use of Partial-Breast Irradiation Has Not Improved Radiotherapy Utilization for Early-Stage Breast Cancer
Julie A. Billar, Myung Shin Sim, Maureen Chung
Re-Excision Rates of Invasive Ductal Carcinoma with Lobular Features Compared with Invasive Ductal Carcinomas and Invasive Lobular Carcinomas of the Breast
David P. Arps, Julie M. Jorns, Lili Zhao, Jessica Bensenhaver, Celina G. Kleer, Judy C. Pang
Granulomatous Mastitis: A New York Public Hospital Experience
Kathie-Ann Joseph, Xuan Luu, Adam Mor
SMO Expression in Colorectal Cancer: Associations with Clinical, Pathological, and Molecular Features
Tingting Li, Xiaoyun Liao, Paul Lochhead, Teppei Morikawa, Mai Yamauchi, Reiko Nishihara, Kentaro Inamura, Sun A. Kim, Kosuke Mima, Yasutaka Sukawa, Aya Kuchiba, Yu Imamura, Yoshifumi Baba, Kaori Shima, Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt, Andrew T. Chan, Charles S. Fuchs, Shuji Ogino, Zhi Rong Qian
Failure of Radioactive Iodine in the Treatment of Hyperthyroidism
David F. Schneider, Philip E. Sonderman, Michaela F. Jones, Kristin A. Ojomo, Herbert Chen, Juan C. Jaume, Diane F. Elson, Scott B. Perlman, Rebecca S. Sippel
Predictive Factors and Pattern of Locoregional Recurrence After Prophylactic Central Neck Dissection in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
Brian Hung-Hin Lang, Diane T. Y. Chan, Kai Pun Wong, Kandy K. C. Wong, Koon Yat Wan
Quality of Life After Robotic Thyroidectomy by a Gasless Unilateral Axillary Approach
Chang Myeon Song, Yong Bae Ji, Hyang Sook Bang, Chul Won Park, Dong Sun Kim, Kyung Tae
The American Society of Peritoneal Surface Malignancies (ASPSM) Multiinstitution Evaluation of the Peritoneal Surface Disease Severity Score (PSDSS) in 1,013 Patients with Colorectal Cancer with Peritoneal Carcinomatosis
Jesus Esquivel, Andrew M. Lowy, Maurie Markman, Terence Chua, Joerg Pelz, Dario Baratti, Joel M. Baumgartner, Richard Berri, Pedro Bretcha-Boix, Marcello Deraco, Guillermo Flores-Ayala, Olivier Glehen, Alberto Gomez-Portilla, Santiago González-Moreno, Martin Goodman, Evgenia Halkia, Shigeki Kusamura, Mecker Moller, Guillaume Passot, Marc Pocard, George Salti, Armando Sardi, Maheswari Senthil, John Spilioitis, Juan Torres-Melero, Kiran Turaga, Richard Trout
Utility of the Proximal Margin Frozen Section for Resection of Gastric Adenocarcinoma: A 7-Institution Study of the US Gastric Cancer Collaborative
Malcolm H. Squires III, David A. Kooby, Timothy M. Pawlik, Sharon M. Weber, George Poultsides, Carl Schmidt, Konstantinos Votanopoulos, Ryan C. Fields, Aslam Ejaz, Alexandra W. Acher, David J. Worhunsky, Neil Saunders, Linda X. Jin, Edward Levine, Clifford S. Cho, Mark Bloomston, Emily Winslow, Kenneth Cardona, Charles A. Staley III, Shishir K. Maithel
The Role of Surgical Resection Following Imatinib Treatment in Patients with Recurrent or Metastatic Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors: Results of Propensity Score Analyses
Seong Joon Park, Min-Hee Ryu, Baek-Yeol Ryoo, Young Soo Park, Byeong Seok Sohn, Hwa Jung Kim, Chan Wook Kim, Ki-Hun Kim, Chang Sik Yu, Jeong Hwan Yook, Byung Sik Kim, Yoon-Koo Kang
Predictive and Prognostic Survival Factors in Peritoneal Carcinomatosis from Appendiceal Cancer After Cytoreductive Surgery with Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy
William Jimenez, Armando Sardi, Carol Nieroda, Michelle Sittig, Vladimir Milovanov, Maria Nunez, Nail Aydin, Vadim Gushchin
Significance of Diaphragmatic Resections and Thoracic Chemoperfusion on Outcomes of Peritoneal Surface Disease Treated with Cytoreductive Surgery (CRS) and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC)
Shuja Ahmed, Edward A. Levine, Reese W. Randle, Katrina R. Swett, Perry Shen, John H. Stewart, Konstantinos I. Votanopoulos
Optimal Prophylactic Method of Venous Thromboembolism for Gastrectomy in Korean Patients: An Interim Analysis of Prospective Randomized Trial
Kyo Young Song, Han Mo Yoo, Eun Young Kim, Ji-Il Kim, Hyeon Woo Yim, Hae Myung Jeon, Cho Hyun Park
A Risk Scoring System to Determine Recurrence in Early-Stage Type 1 Endometrial Cancer: A French Multicentre Study
Sofiane Bendifallah, Geoffroy Canlorbe, Florence Huguet, Charles Coutant, Delphine Hudry, Olivier Graesslin, Emilie Raimond, Cyril Touboul, Pierre Collinet, Géraldine Bleu, Emile Daraï, Marcos Ballester
Significance of Adenomyosis on Tumor Progression and Survival Outcome of Endometrial Cancer
Koji Matsuo, Sigita S. Cahoon, Marc Gualtieri, Christopher A. Scannell, Carrie E. Jung, Tadao Takano, Richard J. Paulson, Laila I. Muderspach, Lynda D. Roman
Cytoreductive Surgery Under Aminolevulinic Acid-Mediated Photodynamic Diagnosis Plus Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy in Patients with Peritoneal Carcinomatosis from Ovarian Cancer and Primary Peritoneal Carcinoma: Results of a Phase I Trial
Yang Liu, Yoshio Endo, Takuji Fujita, Haruaki Ishibashi, Toshihiro Nishioka, Emel Canbay, Yan Li, Shun-ichiro Ogura, Yutaka Yonemura
Assessment of Erlotinib as Adjuvant Chemoprevention in High-Risk Head and Neck Cancer Patients
Eben L. Rosenthal, Thomas K. Chung, William R. Carroll, Lisa Clemons, Renee Desmond, Lisle Nabell
The hMLH1 −93G>A Promoter Polymorphism is Associates with Outcomes in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients
Li-Han Lin, Ming-Wei Lin, Kwei Mar, Chun-Shu Lin, Dar-Der Ji, Wei-Ping Lee, Herng-Sheng Lee, Ming-Fang Cheng, Kan-Tai Hsia
A Retrospective Comparison of Microwave Ablation vs. Radiofrequency Ablation for Colorectal Cancer Hepatic Metastases
Camilo Correa-Gallego, Yuman Fong, Mithat Gonen, Michael I. D’Angelica, Peter J. Allen, Ronald P. DeMatteo, William R. Jarnagin, T. Peter Kingham
CT-Guided High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy of Liver Tumours Does Not Impair Hepatic Function and Shows High Overall Safety and Favourable Survival Rates
Georg Brinkhaus, Johan Friso Lock, Maciej Malinowski, Timm Denecke, Peter Neuhaus, Bernd Hamm, Bernhard Gebauer, Martin Stockmann
Favorable Outcome After Repeat Resection for Colorectal Liver Metastases
Akio Saiura, Junji Yamamoto, Rintaro Koga, Yu Takahashi, Michiro Takahashi, Yosuke Inoue, Yoshihiro Ono, Norihiro Kokudo
Genetic Variants in Genes of Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle Key Enzymes Predict Postsurgical Overall Survival of Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Xiaohong Du, Shaogui Wan, Yibing Chen, Ping Qu, Xiaojun Huang, Xiaohe Yu, Hushan Yang, Yiguan Zhang, Jinliang Xing
Surgical Approaches to Advanced Gallbladder Cancer
Ryota Higuchi, Takehiro Ota, Tatsuo Araida, Hideki Kajiyama, Takehisa Yazawa, Toru Furukawa, Tatsuya Yoshikawa, Ken Takasaki, Masakazu Yamamoto
Molecular Characterization and Patient Outcome of Melanoma Nodal Metastases and an Unknown Primary Site
Aleksandra Gos, Monika Jurkowska, Alexander van Akkooi, Caroline Robert, Hanna Kosela-Paterczyk, Senada Koljenović, Nyam Kamsukom, Wanda Michej, Arkadiusz Jeziorski, Piotr Pluta, Cornelis Verhoef, Janusz A. Siedlecki, Alexander M. M. Eggermont, Piotr Rutkowski
International Multi-institutional Management and Outcome of Melanoma Patients with Positive Sentinel Lymph Nodes in More than One Nodal Basin
Laleh G. Melstrom, Eletha Taylor, Deborah Kuk, Timothy L. Frankel, Katherine Panageas, Lauren Haydu, Michael S. Sabel, John F. Thompson, Charlotte Ariyan, Daniel G. Coit, Mary S. Brady
Flow Cytometric Evaluation of the Safety of Intraoperative Salvaged Blood Filtered with Leucocyte Depletion Filter in Spine Tumour Surgery
Naresh Kumar, Raymond Lam, Aye Sandar Zaw, Rishi Malhotra, Jonathan Tan, Gamaliel Tan, Tony Setiobudi
Chen’s U-Suture Technique for End-to-End Invaginated Pancreaticojejunostomy Following Pancreaticoduodenectomy
Xiao-ping Chen, Zhi-yong Huang, Josef W. Y. Lau, Bi-xiang Zhang, Zhi-wei Zhang, Yi-fa Chen, Wan-guang Zhang, Peng Zhu, Binhao Zhang
Readmission After Pancreatic Resection: Causes and Causality Pattern
Eran Sadot, Murray F. Brennan, Ser Yee Lee, Peter J. Allen, Mithat Gönen, Jeffery S. Groeger, T. Peter Kingham, Michael I. D’Angelica, Ronald P. DeMatteo, William R. Jarnagin, Yuman Fong
Serum CA 19-9 Response to Neoadjuvant Therapy is Associated with Outcome in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
Brian A. Boone, Jennifer Steve, Mazen S. Zenati, Melissa E. Hogg, Aatur D. Singhi, David L. Bartlett, Amer H. Zureikat, Nathan Bahary, Herbert J. Zeh III
CD147-CD98hc Complex Contributes to Poor Prognosis of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Through Promoting Cell Proliferation Via the PI3K/Akt Signaling Pathway
Fei Fei, Xiaofei Li, Li Xu, Deyang Li, Zhipei Zhang, Xu Guo, Hushan Yang, Zhinan Chen, Jinliang Xing
Synchronous Non-small Cell Lung Cancers: Diagnostic Yield can be Improved by Histologic and Genetic Methods
Yiliang Zhang, Haichuan Hu, Rui Wang, Ting Ye, Yunjian Pan, Lei Wang, Yang Zhang, Hang Li, Yuan Li, Lei Shen, Yongfu Yu, Yihua Sun, Haiquan Chen, David Garfield
Homozygous GNAS 393C-Allele Carriers with Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer Fail to Benefit from Platinum-Based Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy
Hakan Alakus, Elfriede Bollschweiler, Arnulf H. Hölscher, Ute Warnecke-Eberz, Kelly A. Frazer, Olivier Harismendy, Andrew M. Lowy, Stefan P. Mönig, Pascal M. Eberz, Martin Maus, Uta Drebber, Winfried Siffert, Ralf Metzger
Factors Influencing the Length of Stay after Radical Cystectomy: Implications for Cancer Care and Perioperative Management
Eugene J. Pietzak, Wei-Ting Hwang, S. Bruce Malkowicz, Thomas J. Guzzo
A Novel Method for Intraoperative Sentinel Lymph Node Detection in Prostate Cancer Patients Using Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles and a Handheld Magnetometer: The Initial Clinical Experience
Alexander Winter, Joachim Woenkhaus, Friedhelm Wawroschek
Commentary on the Canadian National Breast Screening Study
Kimberly J. Van Zee, Nora M. Hansen, Andrea V. Barrio, Carol S. Connor, David N. Danforth, David M. Euhus, Swati A. Kulkarni, David R. McCready, Sarah McLaughlin, Lee G. Wilke