Volume 18, Number 10 / October, 2011

Breast Oncology

Impact of Breast Cancer Molecular Subtypes on Locoregional Recurrence in Patients Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Locally Advanced Breast Cancer

Michael O. Meyers MD, Nancy Klauber-DeMore MD, David W. Ollila MD, Keith D. Amos MD, Dominic T. Moore MPH, Amy A. Drobish MA, Emily M. Burrows MPH, E. Claire Dees MD, Lisa A. Carey MD
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The Negative Effect of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer on Outcome after Breast-Conserving Therapy

Sandra S. Zaky MD, MaryJo Lund PhD, Kelly A. May MD, Karen D. Godette MD, Jonathan J. Beitler MD, Leslie R. Holmes MD, Ruth M. O’Regan MD, Esther S. Yu, David S. Yu MD, PhD, Jerome C. Landry MD, MBA
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Morbidity of Sentinel Node Biopsy: Relationship Between Number of Excised Lymph Nodes and Patient Perceptions of Lymphedema

Jessica I. Goldberg BA, Elyn R. Riedel MA, Monica Morrow MD, Kimberly J. Van Zee MS, MD
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Ductal Carcinoma-In-Situ of the Breast with Subsequent Distant Metastasis and Death

Robert E. Roses MD, Banu K. Arun MD, Sara A. Lari BS, Elizabeth A. Mittendorf MD, Anthony Lucci MD, Kelly K. Hunt MD, Henry M. Kuerer MD, PhD, FACS
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Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Multicentric Breast Cancer: Five-Year Results in a Large Series from a Single Institution

Oreste Gentilini MD, Paolo Veronesi MD, Edoardo Botteri MSc, Fiammetta Soggiu MD, Giuseppe Trifirò MD, Germana Lissidini MD, Viviana Galimberti MD, Simona Musmeci MSc, Paola Rafaniello Raviele MD, Antonio Toesca MD, Silvia Ratini MD, Andres Del Castillo MD, Marco Colleoni MD, Nina Talakhadze MD, Nicole Rotmensz MSc, Giuseppe Viale MD, Umberto Veronesi MD, Alberto Luini MD
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Identifying Gaps in the Locoregional Management of Early Breast Cancer: Highlights from the Kyoto Consensus Conference

Masakazu Toi MD, Eric P. Winer MD, Takashi Inamoto MD, John R. Benson MD, John F. Forbes MD, Michihide Mitsumori MD, John F. R. Robertson MD, Hironobu Sasano MD, Gunter von Minckwitz MD, Akira Yamauchi MD, V. Suzanne Klimberg MD
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Colorectal Cancer

Risk Factors for Anastomotic Leakage after Rectal Cancer Resection and Reconstruction with Colorectostomy. A Retrospective Study with Bootstrap Analysis

Rene Warschkow MD, Thomas Steffen MD, Jutta Thierbach MD, Thomas Bruckner PhD, Jochen Lange MD, Ignazio Tarantino MD
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Evaluation of 18F-FDG-PET for Early Detection of Suboptimal Response of Rectal Cancer to Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy: A Prospective Analysis

Tobias Leibold MD, Timothy J. Akhurst MD, David B. Chessin MD, Henry W. Yeung MD, Homer Macapinlac MD, Jinru Shia MD, Bruce D. Minsky MD, Leonard B. Saltz MD, Elyn Riedel MA, Madhu Mazumdar PhD, Philip B. Paty MD, Martin R. Weiser MD, W. Douglas Wong MD, Steven M. Larson MD, José G. Guillem MD, MPH
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MRI-Based Indications for Neoadjuvant Radiochemotherapy in Rectal Carcinoma: Interim Results of a Prospective Multicenter Observational Study

Joachim Strassburg, Reinhard Ruppert, Henry Ptok, Christoph Maurer, Theodor Junginger, Susanne Merkel, Paul Hermanek
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Endocrine Tumors

Adrenalectomy: Is Volume a Surrogate for Quality?

Kent W. Kercher MD
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Predictive Value of Cytologic Atypia in Indeterminate Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspirate Biopsies

Meredith A. Kato MD, Daniel Buitrago MD, Tracy-Ann Moo MD, Xavier M. Keutgen MD, Raza S. Hoda MD, Joseph A. Ricci MD, Paul J. Christos, Grace Yang MD, Thomas J. Fahey III MD, Rasa Zarnegar MD
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Diffuse Microcalcifications Only of the Thyroid Gland Seen on Ultrasound: Clinical Implication and Diagnostic Approach

Jung Hyun Yoon MD, Eun-Kyung Kim MD, PhD, Eun Ju Son MD, PhD, Hee Jung Moon MD, Jin Young Kwak MD, PhD
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What is the Added Benefit of Cervical Ultrasound to 99mTc-Sestamibi Scanning in Primary Hyperparathyroidism?

Joel T. Adler MD, Herbert Chen MD, FACS, Sarah Schaefer NP, Rebecca S. Sippel MD, FACS
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Gastrointestinal Oncology

Gastric Adenocarcinoma in Young Patients: a Population-Based Appraisal

Waddah B. Al-Refaie MD, FACS, Chung-Yuan Hu MPH, Peter W. T. Pisters FACS, George J. Chang FACS
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A Comparison of POSSUM and GPS Models in the Prediction of Post-operative Outcome in Patients Undergoing Oesophago-gastric Cancer Resection

Sumanta Dutta MRCS, Nesrin M. Al-Mrabt MSc, Grant M. Fullarton MD, Paul G. Horgan PhD, Donald C. McMillan PhD
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Dissemination of Free Cancer Cells from the Gastric Lumen and from Perigastric Lymphovascular Pedicles during Radical Gastric Cancer Surgery

Tae-Su Han BS, Seong-Ho Kong MD, Hyuk-Joon Lee MD, PhD, Hye-Seong Ahn MD, Keun Hur PhD, Jieun Yu MS, Woo-Ho Kim MD, PhD, Han-Kwang Yang MD, PhD, FACS
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Tumor Size and Depth Predict Rate of Lymph Node Metastasis and Utilization of Lymph Node Sampling in Surgically Managed Gastric Carcinoids

Mandeep S. Saund MD, Riad H. Al Natour MD, Ashish M. Sharma MD, Qin Huang MD, PhD, Valia A. Boosalis MD, Jason S. Gold MD
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Evaluation of HER2 Protein Expression in Gastric Carcinomas: Comparative Analysis of 1414 Cases of Whole-Tissue Sections and 595 Cases of Tissue Microarrays

Kab Choong Kim MD, Young Wha Koh MD, Heung-Moon Chang MD, Tae Hwan Kim MD, Jeong Hwan Yook MD, Byung Sik Kim MD, Se Jin Jang MD, Young Soo Park MD
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COX2 Expression Predicts Resistance to Chemoradiotherapy in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Yasunori Akutsu MD, PhD, Naoyuki Hanari MD, PhD, Gulbostan Yusup MD, Aki Komatsu-Akimoto MS, Norimasa Ikeda MD, Mikito Mori MD, PhD, Yasuo Yoneyama MD, PhD, Satoshi Endo MD, Yukimasa Miyazawa MD, PhD, Hisahiro Matsubara MD, PhD
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Gynecologic Oncology

Prognostic Significance of Splenectomy as Part of Initial Cytoreductive Surgery in Ovarian Cancer

Christopher K. McCann DO, Whitfield B. Growdon MD, Elizabeth G. Munro MD, Marcela G. Del Carmen MD, David M. Boruta MD, John O. Schorge MD, Annekathryn Goodman MD
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Head and Neck Oncology

Long-Term Experience in Sentinel Node Biopsy for Early Oral and Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Kavita M. Pattani MD, Joseph Califano MD
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Long-Term Experience in Sentinel Node Biopsy for Early Oral and Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Martina A. Broglie MD, Sarah R. Haile PhD, Sandro J. Stoeckli MD
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Low-Dose Preoperative Chemoradiation Therapy Compared with Surgery Alone with or Without Postoperative Radiotherapy in Patients with Head and Neck Carcinoma

Thomas Mücke MD, Mario Konen MD, Stefan Wagenpfeil MSc, PhD, Marco R. Kesting MD, DDS, PhD, Klaus-Dietrich Wolff MD, DDS, PhD, Frank Hölzle MD, DDS, PhD
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Predictors of Survival in Mucosal Melanoma of the Head and Neck

Daniel Jethanamest MD, Peter M. Vila MSPH, Andrew G. Sikora MD, Luc G. T. Morris MD
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Healthcare Policy and Outcomes

Adrenalectomy in Older Americans has Increased Morbidity and Mortality: An Analysis of 6,416 Patients

Hadiza S. Kazaure BSc, Sanziana A. Roman MD, Julie A. Sosa MA, MD
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Intraoperative Epidural Analgesia Prevents the Early Proinflammatory Response to Surgical Trauma. Results from a Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial of Intraoperative Epidural Versus General Analgesia

Nora Maria Moselli MD, Elisa Baricocchi MD, Dario Ribero MD, Antonio Sottile MD, Luisa Suita MD, Felicino Debernardi MD
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The Significance of PITX2 Overexpression in Human Colorectal Cancer

Hajime Hirose MD, Hideshi Ishii MD, PhD, Koshi Mimori MD, PhD, Fumiaki Tanaka MD, PhD, Ichiro Takemasa MD, PhD, Tsunekazu Mizushima MD, PhD, Masataka Ikeda MD, PhD, Hirofumi Yamamoto MD, PhD, Mitsugu Sekimoto MD, PhD, Yuichiro Doki MD, PhD, Masaki Mori MD, PhD, FACS
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Hepatobiliary Tumors

Clinical Scoring Systems for Stratifying Risk after Resection of Hepatic Colorectal Metastases: Still Relevant?

William R. Jarnagin MD
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Melanomas

Selective Sentinel Lymph Node Dissection for Melanoma: Importance of Harvesting Nodes with Lower Radioactive Counts without the Need for Blue Dye

Liang-Chih Liu MD, Brian M. Parrett MD, Tyler Jenkins BA, Wayne Lee MD, Eugene Morita MD, Patrick Treseler MD, Laura Huang BS, Suresh Thummala MD, Robert E. Allen MD, Mohammed Kashani-Sabet MD, Stanley P. L. Leong MD
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Racial Differences in Survival after Surgical Treatment for Melanoma

Karen Kadela Collins PhD, Ryan C. Fields MD, Dadrie Baptiste MD, Ying Liu MD, PhD, Jeffrey Moley MD, Donna B. Jeffe PhD
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Neuro-Oncology

Prognostic Impact of CD133 mRNA Expression in 48 Glioblastoma Patients Treated with Concomitant Radiochemotherapy: A Prospective Patient Cohort at a Single Institution

Philippe Metellus MD, Isabelle Nanni-Metellus Pharm D, Christine Delfino PhD, Carole Colin PhD, Aurelie Tchogandjian PhD, Bema Coulibaly MD, PhD, Frederic Fina PhD, Anderson Loundou MD, PhD, Marylin Barrie MD, Olivier Chinot MD, L’Houcine Ouafik PhD, Dominique Figarella-Branger MD, PhD
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Pancreatic Tumors

Pancreas-Protocol Imaging at a High-Volume Center Leads to Improved Preoperative Staging of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

Dustin M. Walters MD, Damien J. LaPar MD, Eduard E. de Lange MD, Marc Sarti MD, Jayme B. Stokes MD, Reid B. Adams MD, Todd W. Bauer MD
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Thoracic Oncology

EGFR and p53 Status of Pulmonary Pleomorphic Carcinoma: Implications for EGFR Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors Therapy of an Aggressive Lung Malignancy

Yih-Leong Chang MD, Chen-Tu Wu MD, Jin-Yuan Shih MD, PhD, Yung-Chie Lee MD, PhD
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Risk Factors that Influence Early Death Due to Cancer Recurrence After Extended Radical Esophagectomy with Three-Field Lymph Node Dissection

Shin-ichi Kosugi MD, PhD, Tatsuo Kanda MD, PhD, Kazuhito Yajima MD, PhD, Takashi Ishikawa MD, PhD, Katsuyoshi Hatakeyama MD, PhD
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Lymphatic Vessel Invasion is a Significant Prognostic Indicator in Stage IA Lung Adenocarcinoma

Kazuhito Funai MD, PhD, Haruhiko Sugimura MD, PhD, Toyohiko Morita MD, PhD, Yasumasa Shundo MD, Kei Shimizu MD, Norihiko Shiiya MD, PhD
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Summary of Prognostic Factors and Patient Selection for Extrapleural Pneumonectomy in the Treatment of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

Christopher Cao BSc (Med), MBBS, Tristan D. Yan BSc (Med), MBBS, PhD, Paul G. Bannon MBBS, PhD, FRACS, Brian C. McCaughan MBBS, FRACS
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Translational Research and Biomarkers

Contrasting Prognostic Implications of Platelet-Derived Growth Factor Receptor-β and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-2 in Patients with Angiosarcoma

Kan Yonemori MD, Koji Tsuta MD, PhD, Masashi Ando MD, Akihiro Hirakawa MS, Yutaka Hatanaka PhD, Yoshihiro Matsuno MD, PhD, Hirokazu Chuman MD, Naoya Yamazaki MD, Yasuhiro Fujiwara MD, PhD, Tadashi Hasegawa MD, PhD
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Aberrant Gene Methylation Is a Biomarker for the Detection of Cancer Cells in Peritoneal Wash Samples from Advanced Gastric Cancer Patients

Masatsugu Hiraki MD, PhD, Yoshihiko Kitajima MD, PhD, Yasuo Koga MD, PhD, Tomokazu Tanaka MD, Jun Nakamura MD, PhD, Kazuyoshi Hashiguchi MD, PhD, Hirokazu Noshiro MD, PhD, Kohji Miyazaki MD, PhD
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Urologic Oncology

Radical Prostatectomy Versus External-Beam Radiotherapy for Localized Prostate Cancer: Long-Term Effect on Biochemical Control—In Search of the Optimal Treatment

Carmen González-San Segundo MD, PhD, Felipe Herranz-Amo MD, PhD, Ana Álvarez-González MD, Pedro Cuesta-Álvaro PhD, Marina Gómez-Espi MD, Eva Paños-Fagundo MD, Juan A. Santos-Miranda MD, PhD
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Mortality and Morbidity After Cytoreductive Nephrectomy for Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Population-Based Study

Firas Abdollah MD, Maxine Sun BSc, Rodolphe Thuret MD, Jan Schmitges MD, Shahrokh F. Shariat MD, Paul Perrotte MD, Francesco Montorsi MD, Pierre I. Karakiewicz MD
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Trends of Retroperitoneal Lymphadenectomy Use in Patients with Nonseminomatous Germ Cell Tumor of the Testis: A Population-Based Study

Maxine Sun BSc, Firas Abdollah MD, Lars Budaüs MD, Daniel Liberman MD, Zhe Tian BSc, Monica Morgan MD, Rupinder Johal MD, Jan Schmitges MD, Shahrokh F. Shariat MD, Francesco Montorsi MD, Markus Greafen MD, Paul Perrotte MD, Pierre I. Karakiewicz MD
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