Volume 14, Number 6 / June, 2007

Society of Surgical Oncology Heritage Award: Honoring Edward M. Copeland III, MD, FACS

S. Eva Singletary MD, FACS
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Regional Lymph Node Metastases; a Singular Manifestation of the Process of Clinical Metastases in Cancer: Contemporary Animal Research and Clinical Reports Suggest Unifying Concepts

Blake Cady MD
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Teaching Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues: A Core Curriculum for Surgical Residents

Daniel D. Klaristenfeld MD, David T. Harrington MD, Thomas J. Miner MD
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The Pylorus: Take It or Leave It? Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Pylorus-Preserving versus Standard Whipple Pancreaticoduodenectomy for Pancreatic or Periampullary Cancer

Paul J. Karanicolas MD, Edward Davies MD, Regina Kunz MD, MSc, Matthias Briel MD, H. Pavan Koka MD, Darrin M. Payne MD, Shona E. Smith MD, Hui-Ping Hsu MD, Pin-Wen Lin MD, Christian Bloechle MD, Karl-Joseph Paquet MD, Gordon H. Guyatt MD, MSc
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Factors Influencing the Volume-Outcome Relationship in Gastrectomies: A Population-Based Study

David L. Smith MD, Linda S. Elting DrPH, Peter A. Learn MD, Chandrajit P. Raut MD, Paul F. Mansfield MD
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Clinical Correlation of Endoscopic Ultrasonography with Pathologic Stage and Outcome in Patients Undergoing Curative Resection for Gastric Cancer

David Bentrem MD, Hans Gerdes MD, Laura Tang MD, Murray Brennan MD, Daniel Coit MD
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Gastrointestinal Perforation Due to Bevacizumab in Colorectal Cancer

Muhammad Wasif Saif MD, MBBS, Aymen Elfiky MD, Ronald R. Salem MB, ChB
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Pelvic Exenteration Affords Safe and Durable Treatment for Locally Advanced Rectal Carcinoma

Christopher J. Gannon MD, Jonathan S. Zager MD, George J. Chang MD, Barry W. Feig MD, Christopher G. Wood MD, John M. Skibber MD, Miguel A. Rodriguez-Bigas MD
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α1,2Fucosylation Is a Superior Predictor of Postoperative Prognosis for Colorectal Cancer Compared with Blood Group A, B, or Sialyl Lewis X Antigen Generated within Colorectal Tumor Tissues

Kaori Tsuboi MD, Takayuki Asao MD, PhD, Munenori Ide MD, PhD, Shinji Hashimoto MD, Kasumi Noguchi PhD, Yoshihiko Kominato MD, PhD, Abby R. Saniabadi PhD, Hiroyuki Kuwano MD, PhD, Shin Yazawa PhD
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Association of the Presence of Bone Marrow Micrometastases with the Sentinel Lymph Node Status in 410 Early Stage Breast Cancer Patients: Results of the Swiss Multicenter Study

Igor Langer MD, Ulrich Guller MD, MHS, Ossi R. Koechli MD, Gilles Berclaz MD, Gad Singer MD, Gabriel Schaer MD, Mathias K. Fehr MD, Thomas Hess MD, Daniel Oertli MD, FACS, Lucio Bronz MD, Beate Schnarwyler MD, Edward Wight MD, Urs Uehlinger MD, Eduard Infanger MD, Daniel Burger MD, Markus Zuber MD
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Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas

Treatment and Outcome of 82 Patients with Angiosarcoma

John A. Abraham MD, Francis J. Hornicek MD, PhD, Adam M. Kaufman BS, David C. Harmon MD, Dempsey S. Springfield MD, Kevin A. Raskin MD, Henry J. Mankin MD, David G. Kirsch MD, PhD, Andrew E. Rosenberg MD, G. Petur Nielsen MD, Vikram Desphpande MD, Herman D. Suit MD, MSc, PhD, Thomas F. DeLaney MD, Sam S. Yoon MD
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Breast

Lymphedema Therapy Reduces the Volume of Edema and Pain in Patients with Breast Cancer

John B. Hamner MD, Martin D. Fleming MD
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Breast Oncology

Axillary Reverse Mapping (ARM): A New Concept to Identify and Enhance Lymphatic Preservation

Margaret Thompson MD, Soheila Korourian MD, Ronda Henry-Tillman MD, Laura Adkins MAP, Sheilah Mumford MA, Kent C. Westbrook MD, V Suzanne Klimberg MD
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Differential Expression and Prognostic Implications of the CCN Family Members WISP-1, WISP-2, and WISP-3 in Human Breast Cancer

Simon R. Davies MRCS, Gareth Watkins BSc, Robert E. Mansel MS, FRCS, Wen G. Jiang MD
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Editorial

Should Surgical Resection Be Combined with Imatinib Therapy for Locally Advanced or Metastatic Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors?

Sam S. Yoon MD, Kenneth K. Tanabe MD
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Retroperitoneal Sarcomas—An SOS to Colleagues in Europe

Peter W. T. Pisters MD
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Educational Review

Selection of Patients with Colorectal Peritoneal Carcinomatosis for Cytoreductive Surgery and Perioperative Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy

Tristan D. Yan BSc (Med) MBBS, Junyang Sim BSc (Med), David L. Morris MD, PhD
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Gynecologic Oncology

Determination of the Necessary Total Protein Substitution Requirements in Patients with Advanced Stage Ovarian Cancer and Ascites, Undergoing Debulking Surgery. Correlation with Plasma Proteins

George Vorgias MD, PhD, Christos Iavazzo MD, John Mavromatis MD, Joanna Leontara MD, Michael Katsoulis MD, PhD, Nickolas Kalinoglou MD, Thrassivoulos Akrivos MD, PhD
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Hepatic and Pancreatic Tumors

Optimization of Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy With Oxaliplatin Plus Irinotecan at 43°C After Compete Cytoreductive Surgery: Mortality and Morbidity in 106 Consecutive Patients

Dominique Elias, Diane Goere, François Blot, Valérie Billard, Marc Pocard, Niaz Kohneh-Shahri, Bruno Raynard
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High Serum Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Levels Predict Poor Prognosis after Radiofrequency Ablation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Importance of Tumor Biomarker in Ablative Therapies

Ronnie T. P. Poon MS, PhD, Cecilia Lau MPhil, Roberta Pang PhD, Kelvin K. Ng PhD, Jimmy Yuen MBBS, Sheung Tat Fan MS, MD, PhD, DSc
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Melanoma

Patterns of First-Recurrence and Post-recurrence Survival in Patients with Primary Cutaneous Melanoma After Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy

Kimberly M. Dalal MD, Ami Patel BA, Mary S. Brady MD, David P. Jaques MD, Daniel G. Coit MD
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Melanomas

Detection of First Relapse in Cutaneous Melanoma Patients: Implications for the Formulation of Evidence-Based Follow-up Guidelines

Anne Brecht Francken MD, Helen M. Shaw PhD, Neil A. Accortt PhD, Seng-Jaw Soong PhD, Harald J. Hoekstra MD, John F. Thompson MD
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Multimedia Article

Laparoscopic Medial-to-lateral Approach for the Curative Resection of Right-Sided Colon Cancer

Jin-Tung Liang MD, PhD, Hong-shiee Lai MD, PhD, Po-Huang Lee MD, PhD
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Radiation

Merkel Cell Carcinoma: Assessing the Effect of Wide Local Excision, Lymph Node Dissection, and Radiotherapy on Recurrence and Survival in Early-Stage Disease—Results From a Review of 82 Consecutive Cases Diagnosed Between 1992 and 2004

James Jabbour BSc(Med), MBBS, MPH, Robert Cumming MBBS, MPH, PhD, Richard A. Scolyer MD, FRCPA, George Hruby MBBS, FRANZCR, John F. Thompson MD, FRACS, Stephen Lee MBBS, FACD
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