Volume 18, Number 8 / August, 2011

Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas

Surgery in Retroperitoneal Soft Tissue Sarcoma: A Call for a Consensus Between Europe and North America

Alessandro Gronchi MD, Raphael Pollock MD
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Retroperitoneal Sarcoma: Is It Time to Change the Surgical Policy?

Chiara Mussi MD, Piergiuseppe Colombo MD, Alexia Bertuzzi MD, Massimiliano Coladonato MD, Pietro Bagnoli MD, Simona Secondino MD, Pierina Navarria MD, Emanuela Morenghi BSc, Armando Santoro MD, Vittorio Quagliuolo MD
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Breast Oncology

Does a Supplementary Preoperative Breast MRI in Patients with Invasive Lobular Breast Cancer Change Primary and Secondary Surgical Interventions?

Joerg Heil MD, Anne Bühler, Michael Golatta MD, Joachim Rom MD, Aba Harcos MD, Anne Schipp MD, Geraldine Rauch PhD, Hans Junkermann MD, Christof Sohn MD
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Ultrasonography in Predicting Infiltrating Residual Disease after Preoperative Chemotherapy in Stage II–III Breast Cancer

Valentina Guarneri MD, PhD, Annarita Pecchi MD, Federico Piacentini MD, Elena Barbieri MD, Maria Vittoria Dieci MD, Guido Ficarra MD, Giovanni Tazzioli MD, Antonio Frassoldati MD, Rachele Battista MD, Barbara Canossi MD, Claudia Mauri MD, Roberto D’Amico MS, PierFranco Conte MD, Pietro Torricelli MD
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Disparities in Reconstruction Rates After Mastectomy: Patterns of Care and Factors Associated with the Use of Breast Reconstruction in Southern California

Laura Kruper MD, Alicia Holt MD, Xin Xin Xu BS, Lei Duan MS, Katherine Henderson PhD, Leslie Bernstein PhD, Joshua Ellenhorn MD
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Success and Failure of Primary Medical, Nonoperative Management In Breast Cancer

Seraina Margaretha Schmid MD, Aleksandra Anna Modlasiak MD, Mary Elizabeth Myrick MD, Nerbil Kilic MD, Carsten Thomas Viehl MD, Andreas Schötzau MS, Uwe Güth MD
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A Review of the Oncologic and Surgical Management of Breast Cancer in the Augmented Breast: Diagnostic, Surgical and Surveillance Challenges

Sarah S. K. Tang MBBS, Gerald P. H. Gui MBBS
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Colorectal Cancer

Circulating Angiogenic Factors, Tumor Cells, and Outcome after Resection of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer—What Does It Mean?

Alexander A. Parikh MD, Lee M. Ellis MD
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Mucinous Rectal Cancer: Effectiveness of Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy and Prognosis

Ui Sup Shin MD, Chang Sik Yu MD, Jong Hoon Kim MD, Tae Won Kim MD, Seok-Byoung Lim MD, Sang Nam Yoon MD, Yong Sik Yoon MD, Chan Wook Kim MD, Jin Cheon Kim MD
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Endocrine Tumors

Does Previous Head and Neck Irradiation Increase the Chance of Multigland Disease in Patients with Hyperparathyroidism?

Monica Woll BA, Rebecca S. Sippel MD, Herbert Chen MD
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Central Lymph Node Metastasis of Unilateral Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Patterns and Factors Predictive of Nodal Metastasis, Morbidity, and Recurrence

Jong-Lyel Roh MD, Jin-Man Kim MD, Chan Il Park MD
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Does Mediastinal Extension of the Goiter Increase Morbidity of Total Thyroidectomy? A Multicenter Study of 19,662 Patients

Mario Testini MD, Angela Gurrado MD, Nicola Avenia MD, Rocco Bellantone MD, Antonio Biondi MD, PhD, Paolo Brazzarola MD, Filippo Calzolari MD, PhD, Giuseppe Cavallaro MD, PhD, Giorgio De Toma MD, Pietro Guida PhD, Germana Lissidini MD, PhD, Michele Loizzi MD, Celestino Pio Lombardi MD, Giuseppe Piccinni MD, Piero Portincasa MD, PhD, Lodovico Rosato MD, Nora Sartori MD, Chiara Zugni MD, Francesco B
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Gastrointestinal Oncology

High Accuracy of Multislices Computed Tomography (MSCT) for Para-Aortic Lymph Node Metastases from Gastric Cancer: A Prospective Single-Center Study

Daniele Marrelli MD, Maria Antonietta Mazzei MD, Corrado Pedrazzani MD, Marianna Di Martino MD, Carla Vindigni MD, Giovanni Corso MD, Eleonora Morelli MD, Luca Volterrani MD, Franco Roviello MD
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Tumor Site and Perigastric Nodal Status are the Most Important Predictors of Para-Aortic Nodal Involvement in Advanced Gastric Cancer

Giovanni de Manzoni MD, Alberto Di Leo MD, Franco Roviello MD, Daniele Marrelli MD, Simone Giacopuzzi MD, Anna Maria Minicozzi MD, Giuseppe Verlato MD
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Loss of Sympathetic Nerve Fibers Around Intratumoral Arterioles Reflects Malignant Potential of Gastric Cancer

Hideyo Miyato MD, Joji Kitayama MD, PhD, Hironori Ishigami MD, Shoichi Kaisaki MD, Hirokazu Nagawa MD, PhD
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One-Step Nucleic Acid Amplification (OSNA) for the Application of Sentinel Node Concept in Gastric Cancer

Yoshihisa Yaguchi MD, Hidekazu Sugasawa MD, PhD, Hironori Tsujimoto MD, PhD, Hideki Takata PhD, Kadzuki Nakabayashi, Takashi Ichikura MD, PhD, Satoshi Ono MD, PhD, Shuichi Hiraki MD, PhD, Naoko Sakamoto MD, PhD, Takuya Horio MD, PhD, Isao Kumano MD, Yasuhiro Otomo PhD, Hidetaka Mochizuki MD, PhD, Junji Yamamoto MD, PhD, Kazuo Hase MD, PhD
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Childbearing After Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy: Results From an International Survey

Pablo Ortega-Deballon MD, PhD, Olivier Glehen MD, PhD, Edward Levine MD, Pompiliu Piso MD, Paul H. Sugarbaker MD, Andrea Hayes-Jordan MD, Audrey Facy MD, Naoual Bakrin MD, Patrick Rat MD
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Gynecologic Oncology

Accuracy of 18-Fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose Positron Emission Tomography in the Pretherapeutic Detection of Occult Para-aortic Node Involvement in Patients with a Locally Advanced Cervical Carcinoma

E. Leblanc MD, H. Gauthier MD, D. Querleu MD, PhD, G. Ferron MD, S. Zerdoud MD, P. Morice MD, PhD, C. Uzan MD, PhD, S. Lumbroso MD, F. Lecuru MD, PhD, A. S. Bats MD, PhD, N. Ghazzar MD, M. Bannier MD, G. Houvenaeghel MD, PhD, I. Brenot-Rossi MD, F. Narducci MD
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Head and Neck Oncology

Prognostic Value of Lymph Node Density in Node-Positive Patients with Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Sang Yoon Kim MD, Soon Yuhl Nam MD, Seung-Ho Choi MD, Kyung-Ja Cho MD, Jong-Lyel Roh MD
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Healthcare Policy and Outcomes

Multidisciplinary Teams and Clinics: Better Care or Just More Care

Martin A. Makary MD, MPH
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Special Certification for General Surgical Oncology: Concerns of a Curmudgeon

Walter Lawrence Jr. MD
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Quality of Care Management Decisions by Multidisciplinary Cancer Teams: A Systematic Review

Benjamin W. Lamb MRCS, Katrina F. Brown PhD, Kamal Nagpal MRCS, Charles Vincent PhD, James S. A. Green FRCS (Urol), Nick Sevdalis PhD
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Preoperative Factors Predict Perioperative Morbidity and Mortality After Pancreaticoduodenectomy

David Yu Greenblatt MD, MSPH, Kaitlyn J. Kelly MD, Victoria Rajamanickam MS, Yin Wan MS, Todd Hanson BS, Robert Rettammel MA, Emily R. Winslow MD, Clifford S. Cho MD, FACS, Sharon M. Weber MD, FACS
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Hepatobiliary Tumors

Correlation of Circulating Angiogenic Factors with Circulating Tumor Cells and Disease Recurrence in Patients Undergoing Curative Resection for Colorectal Liver Metastases

Nuh N. Rahbari MD, Christoph Reissfelder MD, Monika Mühlbayer MD, Kathrin Weidmann MD, Christoph Kahlert MD, Markus W. Büchler MD, Jürgen Weitz MD, MSc, Moritz Koch MD
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Antiangiogenic Therapy for Primary Liver Cancer: Correlation of Changes in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Tissue Hypoxia Markers and Clinical Response

Adam C. Yopp MD, Lawrence H. Schwartz MD, Nancy Kemeny MD, David H. Gultekin PhD, Mithat Gönen PhD, Zubin Bamboat MD, Jinru Shia MD, Dana Haviland MD, Michael I. D’Angelica MD, Yuman Fong MD, Ronald P. DeMatteo MD, Peter J. Allen MD, William R. Jarnagin MD
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Clinical Significance of Alpha-Fetoprotein mRNA in Peripheral Blood in Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Shigeru Marubashi MD, Hiroaki Nagano MD, Hiroshi Wada MD, Shogo Kobayashi MD, Hidetoshi Eguchi MD, Yutaka Takeda MD, Masahiro Tanemura MD, Koji Umeshita MD, Yuichiro Doki MD, Masaki Mori MD
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Hepatocellular Carcinoma Expressing Cholangiocyte Phenotype Is a Novel Subtype with Highly Aggressive Behavior

Xin-Yuan Lu MD, Tao Xi MD, Wan-Yee Lau MD, PhD, Hui Dong MD, PhD, Zhen Zhu MD, Feng Shen MD, PhD, Meng-Chao Wu MD, Wen-Ming Cong MD, PhD
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Lens Culinaris Agglutinin-Reactive Fraction of Alpha-Fetoprotein as a Marker of Prognosis and a Monitor of Recurrence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma After Curative Liver Resection

Xiao-Feng Zhang MD, Eric C. H. Lai MBChB, MRCS, FRACS, Xiao-Yan Kang MD, Hai-Hua Qian BS, Yan-Ming Zhou MD, PhD, Le-Hua Shi MD, PhD, Feng Shen MD, PhD, Ye-Fa Yang MD, PhD, Yu Zhang MS, Wan Yee Lau MD, FRCS, FACS, FRACS (Hon), Meng-Chao Wu MD, Zheng-Feng Yin MD, PhD
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Pancreatic Tumors

A Prospective Comparison of the Prognostic Value of Tumor- and Patient-Related Factors in Patients Undergoing Potentially Curative Surgery for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

Nigel B. Jamieson MRCS, Simon M. Denley MD, Jennifer Logue MRCS, Douglas J. MacKenzie MBChB, Alan K. Foulis MD, Euan J. Dickson MD, Clem W. Imrie FRCS, Ross Carter MD, Colin J. McKay MD, Donald C. McMillan PhD
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Recurrence Pattern and Prognosis of Pancreatic Cancer After Pancreatic Fistula

Shunji Nagai MD, PhD, Tsutomu Fujii MD, PhD, FACS, Yasuhiro Kodera MD, PhD, FACS, Mitsuro Kanda MD, PhD, Tevfik T. Sahin MD, Akiyuki Kanzaki MD, Masamichi Hayashi MD, Hiroyuki Sugimoto MD, PhD, Shuji Nomoto MD, PhD, Shin Takeda MD, PhD, Satoshi Morita PhD, Akimasa Nakao MD, PhD, FACS
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Translational Research and Biomarkers

Epigenomic Analysis of Aberrantly Methylated Genes in Colorectal Cancer Identifies Genes Commonly Affected by Epigenetic Alterations

Young-Ho Kim MD, PhD, Han Cheol Lee PhD, Seon-Young Kim PhD, Young Il Yeom PhD, Kyung Ju Ryu MSc, Byung-Hoon Min MD, PhD, Duk-Hwan Kim MD, PhD, Hee Jung Son MD, PhD, Poong-Lyul Rhee MD, PhD, Jae J. Kim MD, PhD, Jong Chul Rhee MD, PhD, Hee Cheol Kim MD, PhD, Ho-Kyung Chun MD, PhD, William M. Grady MD, PhD, Yong Sung Kim PhD
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Role of MMP14 Gene Polymorphisms in Susceptibility and Pathological Development to Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Tzy-Yen Chen MD, Yi-Ching Li PhD, Yu-Fan Liu PhD, Chiung-Man Tsai MS, Yi-Hsien Hsieh PhD, Chiao-Wen Lin MS, Shun-Fa Yang PhD, Chia-Jui Weng PhD
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Water: A Simple Solution for Tumor Spillage

Fumito Ito MD, PhD, Marta Camoriano MS, Mukund Seshadri DDS, PhD, Sharon S. Evans PhD, John M. Kane III MD, Joseph J. Skitzki MD
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Association of Elevated HIF-2α Levels with Low Beclin 1 Expression and Poor Prognosis in Patients with Chondrosarcoma

Changbao Chen MD, PhD, Qingjun Ma MD, PhD, Xinlong Ma MD, Zhongjun Liu MD, Xiaoguang Liu MD
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Elevated Expression of the Stem Cell Marker CD133 Associated with Line-1 Demethylation in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Changsong Zhang MD, Yun Xu MD, Jun Zhao MD, Lieying Fan MD, Guocheng Jiang MD, Rong Li MD, Yang Ling MD, Mengchao Wu MD, Lixin Wei MD, PhD
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Identification of the Coexisting HER2 Gene Amplification and Novel Mutations in the HER2 Protein-Overexpressed Mucinous Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

Wea-Lung Lin MS, DDS, Wu-Hsien Kuo MD, PhD, Fong-Lin Chen MD, PhD, Ming-Yung Lee PhD, Alexandra Ruan, Yeu-Sheng Tyan MD, PhD, Jeng-Dong Hsu MS, DDS, Hung Chiang MD, Chih-Ping Han MD, PhD
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Glucose-Regulated Protein 78 (GRP78) Mediated the Efficacy to Curcumin Treatment on Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Yu-Jia Chang PhD, Cheng-Jeng Tai MD, Li-Jen Kuo MD, Po-Li Wei MD, PhD, Hung-Hua Liang MD, Tsan-Zon Liu PhD, Weu Wang MD, Chen-Jei Tai MD, PhD, Yuan-Soon Ho PhD, Chih-Hsiung Wu MD, PhD, Ming-Te Huang MD
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