Watch and Wait Strategies in Rectal Cancer: Overview, Challenges, and Future Considerations
Release Date: 11/14/2024
SSO Education Series: 2024 HPB Wrapped – Part 2
SurgOnc Today®
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Dr. Julie Hallet and Dr. Patricio Polanco, Chair and Vice-Chair of the HPB disease site, are joined by Drs. Ryan Ellis from Indiana University Scholl of Medicine and Allison Martin from Duke University. They will wrap the 2024 HPB year with us by reviewing the top HPB surgical oncology published this year. References/Resources:
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SSO Education: 2024 HPB Wrapped – Part 1
SurgOnc Today®
In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Dr. Julie Hallet, Chair of the HPB Disease Site Work Group, and Dr. Patricio Polanco, Vice-Chair of the HPB Disease Site Work Group, are joined by Drs. Sajid Khan from Yale School of Medicine and Dr. Cecilia Ethun from UT Southwestern. They will wrap the 2024 HPB year by reviewing the top HPB surgical oncology published this year. References/Resources: #10: AMPLIFY https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02760-3 #9: Adjuvant therapy for IPMN-derived PDAC - https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.23.02313 #8: HELIX...
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ASO Series: Targeting Patient-Derived Orthotopic Gastric Cancers with a Fluorescent Humanized Anti-CEA Antibody
SurgOnc Today®
Speaking of SurgOnc has a new home! New episodes can now be found under the Society of Surgical Oncology's podcast, SurgOnc Today, available on all major podcast platforms. Subscribe today to receive updates on new episode releases. In this new episode of Speaking of SurgOnc, Dr. Rick Greene discusses with Dr. Michael Bouvet and Dr. Kristin Cox the applicability of M5A-IR800 to target human gastric cancer, as reported in their article, "Targeting Patient-Derived Orthotopic Gastric Cancers with a Fluorescent Humanized Anti-CEA Antibody."
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SSO Education Series: A 2024 Update on the Pathology of Appendiceal Neoplasms
SurgOnc Today®
In this SSO Education Series episode of SurgOnc Today®, Dr. Seth Concors, an Assistant Professor of Surgical Oncology at Emory University interviews Dr. Aatur Singhi, an Associate Professor in the Divisions of Anatomic Pathology and Molecular Genomic Pathology, Director and Coordinator of Anatomic Pathology Research and Director of the UPMC Developmental Laboratory, who reviews the fundamentals of appendiceal pathology – reviewing recent changes relevant for clinical management.
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SOI Article Series: The Neoadjuvant Approach to Treatment of Breast Cancer: Multidisciplinary Management to Improve Outcomes
SurgOnc Today®
In this episode of SurgOnc Today®'s Surgical Oncology Insight series, Dr. Shishir Maithel, Editor of Surgical Oncology Insight, discusses with Dr. Rita Mukhtar contemporary neoadjuvant therapy approaches to the treatment of breast cancer, with a focus on the interplay between imaging, systemic therapy, radiotherapy, and surgical management, as reported in her article, "The Neoadjuvant Approach to Treatment of Breast Cancer: Multidisciplinary Management to Improve Outcomes."
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SSO Education Series: Global Perspectives on Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Management
SurgOnc Today®
In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Dr. Cord Sturgeon and Dr. Mahsa Javid are joined by Dr. Eduardo Guzmán Huerta, Dr. Juan Pablo Pantoja, and Professor Brian Lang to discuss factors affecting management of thyroid cancer with this group of experts who have a wealth of experience in different parts of the globe. Considerations affecting decision making and treatment options, adjuvant testing, adjuncts to surgery, overall costs and the system factors that need to be taken into account in the treatment and follow up of patients with thyroid cancer are explored. The discussed contributes towards...
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ASO Series: A Four-Arm Randomized Clinical Trial of Topical Pain Control for Sentinel Node Radiotracer Injections in Patients with Breast Cancer
SurgOnc Today®
Dr. Rick Greene discusses with Dr. Heather Neuman and Dr. Alyssa Wiener the results of a randomized trial of topical pain approaches for radiotracer injections for breast cancer sentinel lymph node mapping, as reported in her article, "A Four-Arm Randomized Clinical Trial of Topical Pain Control for Sentinel Node Radiotracer Injections in Patients with Breast Cancer.”
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Watch and Wait Strategies in Rectal Cancer: Overview, Challenges, and Future Considerations
SurgOnc Today®
In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Prakash Pandalai, MD, Georgios Karagkounis, MD, and Fadwa Ali, MD, review the evolution of the Watch and Wait strategies in the management of rectal cancer patients with an emphasis on challenges, current clinical trials, and future directions.
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SSO Education Series: Indigenous Peoples: Cancer Care and the Research the Drives It
SurgOnc Today®
This podcast was recorded on September 30, which is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada and features an interview with Dr. Nadine Caron, who was the first Indigenous female surgeon in Canada. Dr. Caron shares her experience and perspectives from her leadership roles in health equity for First Nations peoples in Northern British Columbia with Dr. Cord Sturgeon and Dr. Mahsa Javid. The conversation explores the inequities in cancer care and cancer outcomes among Indigenous Peoples. Cancer incidence and survival among Indigenous People, gaps in knowledge, drivers of inequity,...
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SOI Article Series: The Prognostic Role of Post-operative cfDNA after Resection of Colorectal Liver Metastases: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
SurgOnc Today®
In this inaugural episode of the Surgical Oncology Insight series of SurgOnc Today®, Dr. Shishir Maithel, Editor of Surgical Oncology Insight, SSO's open-access journal, discusses with Dr. Brett Ecker the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis characterizing the incidence of cfDNA-positivity after resection of colorectal cancer liver metastases with quantification of its sensitivity and specificity for postoperative recurrence, as reported in his article, "The Prognostic Role of Post-operative cfDNA after Resection of Colorectal Liver Metastases: A Systematic Review and...
info_outlineIn this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Prakash Pandalai, MD, Georgios Karagkounis, MD, and Fadwa Ali, MD, review the evolution of the Watch and Wait strategies in the management of rectal cancer patients with an emphasis on challenges, current clinical trials, and future directions.