Issue 3/2008
Content (42 Articles)
Surgical Oncology at the Crossroads: the Future is Now
Raphael E. Pollock
How Should We View the Results of the Multicenter Selective Lymphadenectomy Trial-1 (MSLT-1)?
Merrick I. Ross, Jeffrey E. Gershenwald
Diminishing Disparities: Starting in Our Own Backyards
Joan J. Ryoo, Sushma Jain, Clifford Y. Ko
Surgical Margins during Hepatic Surgery for Colorectal Liver Metastases: Complete Resection not Millimeters Defines Outcome
Timothy M. Pawlik, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey
Is There a Place for Esogastric Cancer Surgery in Cirrhotic Patients?
Christophe Mariette
The National Cancer Data Base: A Powerful Initiative to Improve Cancer Care in the United States
Karl Y. Bilimoria, Andrew K. Stewart, David P. Winchester, Clifford Y. Ko
Facilitating Breast-Conserving Surgery and Preventing Recurrence: Aromatase Inhibitors in the Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Settings
Eleftherios P. Mamounas
Positron Emission Tomography Detection of Distant Metastatic or Synchronous Disease in Patients with Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer Receiving Preoperative Chemoradiation
Caio S. R. Nahas, Timothy Akhurst, Henry Yeung, Ellen Riedel, Arnold J. Markowitz, Bruce D. Minsky, Philip B. Paty, Martin R. Weiser, Larissa K. Temple, W. Douglas Wong, Steven M. Larson, José G. Guillem
Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation and Local Excision for T2-3 Rectal Cancer
Thomas Borschitz, Daniel Wachtlin, Markus Möhler, Heinz Schmidberger, Theodor Junginger
Factors Influencing Pathologic Results after Total Mesorectal Excision for Rectal Cancer: Analysis of Consecutive 100 Cases
Seung Hyuk Baik, Nam Kyu Kim, Kang Young Lee, Seung Kook Sohn, Chang Hwan Cho, Myeong Jin Kim, Hogeun Kim, Rina K Shinn
Lateral Lymph Node Metastasis Is a Major Cause of Locoregional Recurrence in Rectal Cancer Treated with Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy and Curative Resection
Tae Hyun Kim, Seung-Yong Jeong, Dong Hyun Choi, Dae Yong Kim, Kyung Hae Jung, Sung Ho Moon, Hee Jin Chang, Seok-Byung Lim, Hyo Seong Choi, Jae-Gahb Park
VEGF Expression Predicts Survival in Patients with Peritoneal Surface Metastases from Mucinous Adenocarcinoma of the Appendix and Colon
Jocelyn M. Logan-Collins, Andrew M. Lowy, Toni M. Robinson-Smith, Seena Kumar, Jeffrey J. Sussman, Laura E. James, Syed A. Ahmad
Swedish Experience with Peritonectomy and HIPEC. HIPEC in Peritoneal Carcinomatosis
B. L. van Leeuwen, W. Graf, L. Pahlman, H. Mahteme
Aggressive Surgical Management of Peritoneal Carcinomatosis With Low Mortality in a High-Volume Tertiary Cancer Center
Niraj J. Gusani, Sung W. Cho, Christos Colovos, Songwon Seo, Jan Franko, Scott D. Richard, Robert P. Edwards, Charles K. Brown, Matthew P. Holtzman, Herbert J. Zeh, David L. Bartlett
Risk Factors for Lymph Node Metastasis in Undifferentiated Early Gastric Cancer
Chen Li, Sungsoo Kim, Ji Fu Lai, Sung Jin Oh, Woo Jin Hyung, Won Hyuk Choi, Seung Ho Choi, Zheng Gang Zhu, Sung Hoon Noh
Morphological Distribution of Metastatic Foci in Sentinel Lymph Nodes with Gastric Cancer
Shigehiro Yanagita, Shoji Natsugoe, Yoshikazu Uenosono, Hideo Arima, Tsutomu Kozono, Katsuhiko Ehi, Takaaki Arigami, Hiroshi Higashi, Takashi Aikou
Comparison Between the Minimum Margin Defined on Preoperative Imaging and the Final Surgical Margin After Hepatectomy for Cancer: How to Manage It?
D. Elias, S. Bonnet, C. Honoré, N. Kohneh-Shahri, G. Tomasic, N. Lassau, C. Dromain, D. Goere
Incomplete Ablation After Radiofrequency Ablation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Analysis of Risk Factors and Prognostic Factors
Vincent Wai-To Lam, Kelvin K. Ng, Kenneth Siu-Ho Chok, Tan-To Cheung, Jimmy Yuen, Helen Tung, Wai-Kuen Tso, Sheung-Tat Fan, Ronnie T. P. Poon
Tumor-Associated Lymphangiogenesis Correlates with Lymph Node Metastases and Prognosis in Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma
Armin Thelen, Arne Scholz, Christoph Benckert, Wilko Weichert, Ekkehart Dietz, Bertram Wiedenmann, Peter Neuhaus, Sven Jonas
Laparoscopic Liver Surgery for Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Hong-Yaw Chen, Chung-Chou Juan, Chen-Guo Ker
An Aggressive Approach to Extrahepatic Cholangiocarcinomas Is Warranted: Margin Status Does Not Impact Survival after Resection
Jonathan Hernandez, Sarah M. Cowgill, Sam Al-Saadi, Desiree Villadolid, Sharona Ross, Emily Kraemer, Mark Shapiro, John Mullinax, Jennifer Cooper, Steven Goldin, Emmanuel Zervos, Alexander Rosemurgy
Percutaneous Hepatic Perfusion in Patients with Metastatic Liver Cancer: Anesthetic, Hemodynamic, and Metabolic Considerations
Ning Miao, James F. Pingpank, H. Richard Alexander, Seth M. Steinberg, Tatiana Beresneva, Zenaide M. N. Quezado
Delayed Visceral Arterial Hemorrhage Following Whipple’s Procedure: Minimally Invasive Treatment with Covered Stents
Peter Heiss, Maike Bachthaler, Okka Wilkea Hamer, Pompiliu Piso, Thomas Herold, Hans Juergen Schlitt, Stefan Feuerbach, Niels Zorger
Factors Associated with Negative Margins of Lumpectomy Specimen: Potential Use in Selecting Patients for Intraoperative Radiotherapy
D. E. Schiller, L. W. Le, B. C. J. Cho, B. J. Youngson, D. R. McCready
Atypical Ductal Hyperplasia at Margin of Breast Biopsy—Is Re-Excision Indicated?
Shalini Arora, Tehillah S. Menes, Christine Moung, Chandandeep Nagi, Ira Bleiweiss, Shabnam Jaffer
S-Classification of Sentinel Lymph Node Predicts Axillary Nonsentinel Lymph Node Status in Patients with Breast Cancer
Astrid Maria Fink, Harald Lass, Helmut Hartleb, Wolfgang Jurecka, Heinrich Salzer, Andreas Steiner
The Influence of Age on the Breast Surgery Decision-Making Process
Richard J. Bleicher, Paul Abrahamse, Sarah T. Hawley, Steven J. Katz, Monica Morrow
The Lymphatic Anatomy of the Breast and its Implications for Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy: A Human Cadaver Study
Hiroo Suami, Wei-Ren Pan, G. Bruce Mann, G. Ian Taylor
Multiple Genetic Polymorphisms of GSTP1 313AG, MDR1 3435CC, and MTHFR 677CC Highly Correlated with Early Relapse of Breast Cancer Patients in Taiwan
Ming-Yii Huang, Yi-Hui Wang, Fang-Ming Chen, Su-Chen Lee, Wei-Yu Fang, Tian-Lu Cheng, Ming-Feng Hou, Jaw-Yuan Wang, Shiu-Ru Lin
Racial Disparities in Esophageal Cancer Treatment and Outcomes
Alexander J. Greenstein, Virginia R. Litle, Scott J. Swanson, Celia M. Divino, Stuart Packer, Thomas G. McGinn, Juan P. Wisnivesky
Expression Status of Folate Receptor α Is Significantly Correlated with Prognosis in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancers
Shotaro Iwakiri, Makoto Sonobe, Shinjiro Nagai, Toshiki Hirata, Hiromi Wada, Ryo Miyahara
The Utility of Metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) Scintigraphy in Patients with Pheochromocytoma
David Yü Greenblatt, Yoram Shenker, Herbert Chen
Tumor Necrosis Rate Adjusted by Tumor Volume Change Is a Better Predictor of Survival of Localized Osteosarcoma Patients
Min Suk Kim, Soo-Yong Lee, Wan Hyeong Cho, Won Seok Song, Jae-Soo Koh, Jun Ah Lee, Ji Young Yoo, Dae-Geun Jeon
Analysis of Risk Factors of Predictive Local Tumor Control in Oral Cavity Cancer
Chun-Ta Liao, Joseph Tung-Chieh Chang, Hung-Ming Wang, Shu-Hang Ng, Chuen Hsueh, Li-Yu Lee, Chih-Hung Lin, I-How Chen, Shiang-Fu Huang, Ann-Joy Cheng, Tzu-Chen Yen
A Novel Function of the Receptor for Advanced Glycation End-Products (RAGE) in Association with Tumorigenesis and Tumor Differentiation of HCC
Kiyokazu Hiwatashi, Shinichi Ueno, Kazuhiro Abeyama, Fumitake Kubo, Masahiko Sakoda, Ikuro Maruyama, Masahiro Hamanoue, Shoji Natsugoe, Takashi Aikou
Confirmation of Sentinel Lymph Node Identity by Analysis of Fine-Needle Biopsy Samples Using Inductively Coupled Plasma–Mass Spectrometry
Alison Beavis, Michael Dawson, Philip Doble, Richard A. Scolyer, Roger Bourne, Ling-Xi L. Li, Rajmohan Murali, Jonathan R. Stretch, Cynthia L. Lean, Roger F. Uren, John F. Thompson
Pathological Axillary Lymph Node Status in HER-2 Receptor Positive and Negative Breast Cancers
Jeon Hor Chen, Garima Agrawal, P. Carpenter, Rita S. Mehta, Orhan Nalcioglu, Min-Ying Su
Breast Conservation Therapy: Multiple Reexcisions or Subcutaneous and Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy?
E. Lykoudis, N. Xeropotamos, D. Ziogas, M. Fatouros
Reexcisions in Breast-Conserving Surgery for Breast Cancer: Can They Be Avoided?
Liakakos Theodore
Reducing Local Recurrence after Breast-Conserving Surgery for Breast Cancer
Theodore Liakakos, Georgios Baltogiannis
Practice Pearl: a Novel Use of Transdermal Nitroglycerine To Reduce Blood Transfusion for Surgery of Metastatic Tumors of the Spine
Hamid Namazi