Issue 9/2016
Content (46 Articles)
Benchmarking the Scientific and Educational Impact of the Annals of Surgical Oncology
Charles M. Balch, V. Suzanne Klimberg, Kelly M. McMasters, Timothy M. Pawlik, Kenneth K. Tanabe, Mitchell C. Posner, Deborah Whippen, Mark S. Roh
Prediction is Difficult, Especially About the Future: Clinical Prognostic Tools in Melanoma
Vernon K. Sondak, Jane L. Messina
Twenty Years of CTOS: The Transdisciplinary Society Dedicated to Studying the Rare and Helping the Underserved
R. Lor Randall
Sirolimus in Advanced Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma: A Retrospective Case-Series Analysis from the Italian Rare Cancer Network Database
Silvia Stacchiotti, Salvatore Provenzano, Gianpaolo Dagrada, Tiziana Negri, Silvia Brich, Umberto Basso, Antonella Brunello, Federica Grosso, Luca Galli, Elena Palassini, Michela Libertini, Vittoria Colia, Alessandro Gronchi, Angelo P. Dei Tos, Flavio Crippa, Carlo Morosi, Silvana Pilotti, Paolo G. Casali
Targeting Cyclin-Dependent Kinases in Synovial Sarcoma: Palbociclib as a Potential Treatment for Synovial Sarcoma Patients
Myrella Vlenterie, Melissa H. S. Hillebrandt-Roeffen, Esther W. M. Schaars, Uta E. Flucke, Emmy D. G. Fleuren, Anna C. Navis, William P. J. Leenders, Yvonne M. H. Versleijen-Jonkers, Winette T. A. van der Graaf
Critical Assessment of Clinical Prognostic Tools in Melanoma
Alyson L. Mahar, Carolyn Compton, Susan Halabi, Kenneth R. Hess, Jeffrey E. Gershenwald, Richard A. Scolyer, Patti A. Groome
The MELFO-Study: Prospective, Randomized, Clinical Trial for the Evaluation of a Stage-adjusted Reduced Follow-up Schedule in Cutaneous Melanoma Patients—Results after 1 Year
Samantha Damude, Josette E. H. M. Hoekstra-Weebers, Anne Brecht Francken, Sylvia ter Meulen, Esther Bastiaannet, Harald J. Hoekstra
Completion Lymph Node Dissection or Observation for Melanoma Sentinel Lymph Node Metastases: A Decision Analysis
Erin E. Burke, Pamela R. Portschy, Todd M. Tuttle, Karen M. Kuntz
Surgeons’ Perspectives of Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy
Emily Bellavance, Jeffrey Peppercorn, Shari Kronsberg, Rachel Greenup, Jason Keune, Julie Lynch, Deborah Collyar, Laurence Magder, Jon Tilburt, Fay Hlubocky, Katharine Yao
The Role of Intraoperative Pathologic Assessment in the Surgical Management of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ
Marquita R. Decker, Amy Trentham-Dietz, Noelle K. Loconte, Heather B. Neuman, Maureen A. Smith, Rinaa S. Punglia, Caprice C. Greenberg, Lee G. Wilke
Trends in Media Reports of Celebrities’ Breast Cancer Treatment Decisions
Michael S. Sabel, Sonya Dal Cin
Additional Cavity Shaving at the Time of Breast-Conserving Surgery Enhances Accuracy of Margin Status Examination
Giacomo Pata, Michele Bartoli, Anna Bianchi, Mario Pasini, Stefano Roncali, Fulvio Ragni
TARGIT-R (Retrospective): North American Experience with Intraoperative Radiation Using Low-Kilovoltage X-Rays for Breast Cancer
Stephanie A. Valente, Rahul D. Tendulkar, Sheen Cherian, Colin O’Rourke, Jon M. Greif, Lisa Bailey, Valery Uhl, Kevin P. Bethke, Eric D. Donnelly, Ray Rudolph, Aaron Pederson, Thomas Summer, S. Chace Lottich, Darrel L. Ross, Christine Laronga, Loretta Loftus, Andrea M. Abbott, Pond Kelemen, Ulrich Hermanto, Neil B. Friedman, Gauri C. Bedi, Jennifer E. Joh, William A. Thompson III, Richard A. Hoefer, Jason P. Wilson, Song K. Kang, Barry Rosen, James Ruffer, Luis Bravo, Alice Police, Jamie M. Escallon, Anthony W. Fyles, David R. McCready, Gregory M. Graves, Nitin Rohatgi, Joyce A. Eaker, Jannine Graves, Shawna C. Willey, Eleni A. Tousimis, Brian T. Collins, Christina M. Shaw, Lee Riley, Nimisha Deb, Tricia Kelly, David L. Andolino, Marc E. Boisvert, Joanne Lyons, William Small Jr., Stephen R. Grobmyer
Impact of Age on Risk of Recurrence of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ: Outcomes of 2996 Women Treated with Breast-Conserving Surgery Over 30 Years
Patricia A. Cronin, Cristina Olcese, Sujata Patil, Monica Morrow, Kimberly J. Van Zee
Is there an Ideal Breast Conservation Rate for the Treatment of Breast Cancer?
M. P. Tan
Postoperative Systemic Inflammatory Response, Complication Severity, and Survival Following Surgery for Colorectal Cancer
Stephen T. McSorley, David G. Watt, Paul G. Horgan, Donald C. McMillan
Increased Survival of Patients with Synchronous Colorectal Peritoneal Metastases Receiving Preoperative Chemotherapy Before Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy
R. A. Devilee, G. A. Simkens, T. R. van Oudheusden, H. J. Rutten, G. J. Creemers, A. J. ten Tije, I. H. de Hingh
Selective AKT Inhibition by MK-2206 Represses Colorectal Cancer-Initiating Stem Cells
Patrizia Malkomes, Ilaria Lunger, Alexander Luetticke, Elsie Oppermann, Nadine Haetscher, Hubert Serve, Katharina Holzer, Wolf Otto Bechstein, Michael A. Rieger
Association Between the Most Frequent Complications After Surgery for Stage I–III Colon Cancer and Short-Term Survival, Long-Term Survival, and Recurrences
A. J. Breugom, D. T. van Dongen, E. Bastiaannet, F. W. Dekker, L. G. M. van der Geest, G. J. Liefers, A. W. K. S. Marinelli, W. E. Mesker, J. E. A. Portielje, W. H. Steup, L. N. L. Tseng, C. J. H. van de Velde, J. W. T. Dekker
Predictive Factors for Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma
Seo Ki Kim, Inhye Park, Jung-Woo Woo, Jun Ho Lee, Jun-Ho Choe, Jung-Han Kim, Jee Soo Kim
Antiplatelet and Anticoagulant Medications Significantly Increase the Risk of Postoperative Hematoma: Review of over 4500 Thyroid and Parathyroid Procedures
Sarah C. Oltmann, Amal Y. Alhefdhi, Mohammad H. Rajaei, David F. Schneider, Rebecca S. Sippel, Herbert Chen
Metadherin Expression is Associated with Extrathyroidal Extension in Papillary Thyroid Cancer Patients
Robert F. Moore, Andrew B. Sholl, Laura Kidd, Zaid Al-Qurayshi, Koji Tsumagari, Obinwanne M. Emejulu, Roostam Kholmatov, Paul Friedlander, Zakaria Y. Abd Elmageed, Emad Kandil
Differentiating Atypical Parathyroid Neoplasm from Parathyroid Cancer
Ioannis Christakis, Naifa Bussaidy, Callisia Clarke, Lily Joy Kwatampora, Carla L. Warneke, Angelica M. Silva, Michelle D. Williams, Elizabeth Gardner Grubbs, Jeffrey E. Lee, Nancy D. Perrier
More Extensive Surgery May Not Improve Survival Over Parathyroidectomy Alone in Parathyroid Carcinoma
Stephanie Young, James X. Wu, Ning Li, Michael W. Yeh, Masha J. Livhits
Prospective Quality of Life Study for Colorectal Cancer Patients with Peritoneal Carcinomatosis Undergoing Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy
Claramae Shulyn Chia, Grace Hwei Ching Tan, Cindy Lim, Khee Chee Soo, Melissa Ching Ching Teo
Intrathoracic Chemoperfusion Decreases Recurrences in Patients with Full-Thickness Diaphragm Involvement with Mucinous Appendiceal Adenocarcinoma
Travis E. Grotz, Paul F. Mansfield, Richard E. Royal, Gary N. Mann, Safia Rafeeq, Karen A. Beaty, Michael J. Overman, Keith F. Fournier
Viable Cancer Cells in the Remnant Stomach are a Potential Source of Peritoneal Metastasis after Curative Distal Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer
Satoshi Murata, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Sachiko Kaida, Mitsuaki Ishida, Hirokazu Kodama, Katsushi Takebayashi, Tomoharu Shimizu, Toru Miyake, Tohru Tani, Ryoji Kushima, Masaji Tani
Effects of an Oral Elemental Nutritional Supplement on Post-gastrectomy Body Weight Loss in Gastric Cancer Patients: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial
Hiroshi Imamura, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Kentaro Kishi, Kentaro Inoue, Jin Matsuyama, Yusuke Akamaru, Yutaka Kimura, Shigeyuki Tamura, Ryohei Kawabata, Junji Kawada, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Tomono Kawase, Junichi Fukui, Mari Takagi, Atsushi Takeno, Toshio Shimokawa
Multimodality Therapy Improves Survival in Resected Early Stage Gastric Cancer in the United States
Jashodeep Datta, Matthew T. McMillan, Luis Ruffolo, Lea Lowenfeld, Ronac Mamtani, John P. Plastaras, Daniel T. Dempsey, Giorgos C. Karakousis, Jeffrey A. Drebin, Douglas L. Fraker, Robert E. Roses
Impact of Major Complications on Patients’ Quality of Life After Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy
Trevor D. Hamilton, Emily L. Taylor, Amanda J. Cannell, J. Andrea McCart, Anand Govindarajan
The Survival Rate and Surgical Morbidity of Abdominal Radical Trachelectomy Versus Abdominal Radical Hysterectomy for Stage IB1 Cervical Cancer
Xiaoqi Li, Jin Li, Hao Wen, Xingzhu Ju, Xiaojun Chen, Lingfang Xia, Guihao Ke, Jia Tang, Xiaohua Wu
From Conventional Radiotracer Tc-99m with Blue Dye to Indocyanine Green Fluorescence: A Comparison of Methods Towards Optimization of Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping in Early Stage Cervical Cancer for a Laparoscopic Approach
Alessandro Buda, Andrea Papadia, Ignacio Zapardiel, Enrico Vizza, Fabio Ghezzi, Elena De Ponti, Andrea Alberto Lissoni, Sara Imboden, Maria Dolores Diestro, Debora Verri, Maria Luisa Gasparri, Beatrice Bussi, Giampaolo Di Martino, Begoña Diaz de la Noval, Michael Mueller, Cinzia Crivellaro
Prospective Randomized Trial Comparing Transperitoneal Versus Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Aortic Lymphadenectomy for Surgical Staging of Endometrial and Ovarian Cancer: The STELLA Trial
Berta Díaz-Feijoo, Alejandro Correa-Paris, Assumpció Pérez-Benavente, Silvia Franco-Camps, José Luis Sánchez-Iglesias, Silvia Cabrera, Javier de la Torre, Cristina Centeno, Oriol Puig Puig, Blanca Gil-Ibañez, Eva Colas, Javier Magrina, Antonio Gil-Moreno
Quality of Care for Cervical and Endometrial Cancer Patients: The Impact of Different Techniques of Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping on Patient Satisfaction
Alessandro Buda, Federica Elisei, Sharon Palazzi, Elena De Ponti, Maurizio Arosio, Francesca Vecchione, Tiziana Dell’Anna, Marco Cuzzocrea, Beatrice Bussi, Daniela Giuliani, Giampaolo Di Martino, Cinzia Crivellaro
Significance of the Complete Surgical Staging of Stage I Malignant Ovarian Germ Cell Tumors
Jeong-Yeol Park, Dae-Yeon Kim, Dae-Shik Suh, Jong-Hyeok Kim, Yong-Man Kim, Young-Tak Kim, Joo-Hyun Nam
Weight Change Pattern and Survival Outcome of Women with Endometrial Cancer
Koji Matsuo, Aida Moeini, Sigita S. Cahoon, Hiroko Machida, Marcia A. Ciccone, Brendan H. Grubbs, Laila I. Muderspach
Impact of Chemotherapy and External-Beam Radiation Therapy on Outcomes among Patients with Resected Gallbladder Cancer: A Multi-institutional Analysis
Yuhree Kim, Neda Amini, Ana Wilson, Georgios A. Margonis, Cecilia G. Ethun, George Poultsides, Thuy Tran, Kamran Idrees, Chelsea A. Isom, Ryan C. Fields, Bradley Krasnick, Sharon M. Weber, Ahmed Salem, Robert C. G. Martin, Charles Scoggins, Perry Shen, Harveshp D. Mogal, Carl Schmidt, Eliza Beal, Ioannis Hatzaras, Rivfka Shenoy, Kenneth Cardona, Shishir K. Maithel, Timothy M. Pawlik
Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation Followed by Surgery for Locally Advanced Gallbladder Cancers: A New Paradigm
Reena Engineer, Mahesh Goel, Supriya Chopra, Prachi Patil, Nilendu Purandare, Venkatesh Rangarajan, Reena Ph, Munita Bal, Shailesh Shrikhande, S. K. Shrivastava, S. Mehta
Prognostic Implications of Lymph Node Status for Patients With Gallbladder Cancer: A Multi-Institutional Study
Neda Amini, Yuhree Kim, Ana Wilson, Georgios Antonios Margonis, Cecilia G. Ethun, George Poultsides, Thuy Tran, Kamran Idrees, Chelsea A. Isom, Ryan C. Fields, Bradley Krasnick, Sharon M. Weber, Ahmed Salem, Robert C. G. Martin, Charles Scoggins, Perry Shen, Harveshp D. Mogal, Carl Schmidt, Eliza Beal, Ioannis Hatzaras, Rivfka Shenoy, Shishir K. Maithel, Timothy M. Pawlik
Primary Tumor Versus Liver-First Strategy in Patients with Stage IVA Colorectal Cancer: A Propensity Score Analysis of Long-term Outcomes and Recurrence Pattern
Chetana Lim, Alexandre Doussot, Michael Osseis, Chady Salloum, Concepcion Gomez Gavara, Philippe Compagnon, Francesco Brunetti, Julien Calderaro, Daniel Azoulay
A Nomogram to Predict Brain Metastases of Resected Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients
Fanrong Zhang, Weihui Zheng, Lisha Ying, Junzhou Wu, Shaoyuan Wu, Shenglin Ma, Dan Su
Value of Surgical Resection in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Grade III Glioma Treated in a Multimodal Approach: Surgery, Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy
Federico Pessina, Pierina Navarria, Luca Cozzi, Anna Maria Ascolese, Matteo Simonelli, Armando Santoro, Stefano Tomatis, Marco Riva, Enrica Fava, Marta Scorsetti, Lorenzo Bello
Intraoperative Fluid Resuscitation Strategies in Pancreatectomy: Results from 38 Hospitals in Michigan
Mark A. Healy, Laurence E. McCahill, Mathew Chung, Richard Berri, Hiromichi Ito, Shawn H. Obi, Sandra L. Wong, Samantha Hendren, David Kwon
Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy Utilizing a Stapled Side-to-Side Anastomosis is Safe in the Western Patient Population
Kfir Ben-David, Rebecca Tuttle, Moshim Kukar, Georgios Rossidis, Steven N. Hochwald
A Role for Tumor Volume Assessment in Resectable Esophageal Cancer
Lucinda G. C. Tullie, Hyon-Mok Sohn, Janine Zylstra, Fredrik Mattsson, Nyree Griffin, Naveen Sharma, Francois Porté, Lisa Ramage, Gary J. Cook, James A. Gossage, Robert C. Mason, Jesper Lagergren, Andrew R. Davies
The Prognostic Significance of pSTAT1 and CD163 Expressions in Surgically Resected Stage 1 Pulmonary Squamous Cell Carcinomas
Mong-Wei Lin, Ching-Yao Yang, Shuenn-Wen Kuo, Chen-Tu Wu, Yih-Leong Chang, Pan-Chyr Yang