Volume 8, Number 10 / December, 2001

Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation for Localized Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas

Rebekah R. White MD, Herbert I. Hurwitz MD, Michael A. Morse MD, Catherine Lee MD, Mitchell S. Anscher MD, Erik K. Paulson MD, Marcia R. Gottfried MD, John Baillie MB, ChB, Malcolm S. Branch MD, Paul S. Jowell MB, ChB, Kevin M. McGrath MD, Bryan M. Clary MD, Theodore N. Pappas MD, Douglas S. Tyler MD
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Improved Staging of Node-Negative Patients With Intermediate to Thick Melanomas (>1 mm) With the Use of Lymphatic Mapping and Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy

Sophie Dessureault MD, Seng-Jaw Soong PhD, Merrick I. Ross MD, John F. Thompson MD, John M. Kirkwood MD, Daniel G. Coit MD, Kelly M. McMasters MD, Charles M. Balch MD, Douglas Reintgen MD
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Factors Affecting Survival After Complete Response to Isolated Limb Perfusion in Patients With In-Transit Melanoma

Theresa G. Zogakis MD, David L. Bartlett MD, Steven K. Libutti MD, David J. Liewehr MS, Seth M. Steinberg PhD, Douglas L. Fraker MD, H. Richard Alexander MD
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A Prospective Study of 2-[18F] Fluoro-2-Deoxy-D-Glucose/Positron Emission Tomography Scan, 99mTc-Labeled Arcitumomab (CEA-Scan), and Blind Second-Look Laparotomy for Detecting Colon Cancer Recurrence in Patients With Increasing Carcinoembryonic Antigen Levels

Steven K Libutti MD, H Richard Alexander Jr, MD, Peter Choyke MD, David L Bartlett MD, Stephen L Bacharach PhD, Millie Whatley RNMT, Frederic Jousse MD, William C Eckelman PhD, Karen Kranda RN, Ronald D Neumann MD, Jorge A Carrasquillo MD
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Surgical Debulking and Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy for Established Peritoneal Metastases From Colon and Appendix Cancer

Alfred T Culliford IV MD, Ari D. Brooks MD, Sunil Sharma MD, Leonard B. Saltz MD,, Gary K. Schwartz MD, Eileen M. O’Reilly MD, David H. Ilson MD, Nancy E. Kemeny MD,, David P. Kelsen MD, Jose G. Guillem MD, W Douglas Wong MD,, Alfred M. Cohen MD, Philip B. Paty MD
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Early Postoperative Oral Feeding After Colectomy: An Analysis of Factors That May Predict Failure

Nicholas J. Petrelli MD, Charles Cheng MD, Deborah Driscoll BA, Miguel A. Rodriguez-Bigas MD
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Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation for Rectal Cancer Does Not Influence Survival

Mark W. Onaitis MD, Robert B. Noone MD, Ryan Fields BS, Herbert Hurwitz MD, Michael Morse MD, Paul Jowell MB, ChB, Kevin McGrath MD, Catherine Lee MD, Mitchell S. Anscher MD, Bryan Clary MD, Christopher Mantyh MD, Theodore N. Pappas MD, Kirk Ludwig MD, Hilliard F. Seigler MD, Douglas S. Tyler MD
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Expression and Prognostic Significance ofO6-Methylguanine-DNA Methyltransferase in Hepatocellular, Gastric, and Breast Cancers

Shiroh Matsukura MD, Kohji Miyazaki MD, PhD, Hiroyuki Yakushiji MD, PhD, Akiomi Ogawa MD, PhD, Katsumi Harimaya MD, Yusaku Nakabeppu PhD, Mutsuo Sekiguchi PhD
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The Problem of the Accuracy of Intraoperative Examination of Axillary Sentinel Nodes in Breast Cancer

Stefano Zurrida MD, Giovanni Mazzarol MD, Viviana Galimberti MD, Giuseppe Renne MD, Fabio Bassi MD, Franco Iafrate MD, Giuseppe Viale MD,FRCPath
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Utility of Breast Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy Using Day-Before-Surgery Injection of High-Dose 99mTc-Labeled Sulfur Colloid

Carmen C. Solorzano MD, Merrick I. Ross MD, Ebrahim Delpassand MD, Nadeem Mirza MD, Jeri S. Akins MPAS, PAC, Henry M. Kuerer MD, PhD, Funda Meric MD, Frederick C. Ames MD, Lisa Newman MD, Barry Feig MD, S. Eva Singletary MD, Kelly K. Hunt MD
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Estrogen Replacement Therapy After Breast Cancer: A 12-Year Follow-Up

George N. Peters MD, Tomasina Fodera MD, Jennifer Sabol MD, Stephen Jones MD, David Euhus MD
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Utility of Internal Mammary Lymph Node Removal When Noted by Intraoperative Gamma Probe Detection

Elisabeth Dupont MD, Charles E. Cox MD, Keoni Nguyen BS, Christopher J. Salud BS, Eric S. Peltz BS, George F. Whitehead, Mark D. Ebert BS, Ni Ni Ku MD, Douglas S. Reintgen MD
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Pathways of Lymphatic Drainage From the Breast

S. David Nathanson MD, D. Lynne Wachna RN, BSN, Donna Gilman MD, Kastytis Karvelis MD, Suzanne Havstad MS, John Ferrara MD
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Geographical Differences in Primary Therapy for Early-Stage Breast Cancer

David I. Gregorio PhD, MS, Martin Kulldorff PhD, Leah Barry MPH, Holly Samocuik BS, Kristin Zarfos MD
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Single Intralesional Tracer Dose for Radio-Guided Excision of Clinically Occult Breast Cancer and Sentinel Node

P. J. Tanis MD, E. E. Deurloo MD, R. A. Valdés Olmos MD, PhD, E. J.Th. Rutgers MD, PhD, O. E. Nieweg MD, PhD, A.P.E. Besnard MD, B.B.R. Kroon MD, PhD
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Minimally Invasive, Radioguided Surgery for Primary Hyperparathyroidism

G. McGreal FRCSI, D. C. Winter MD, FRCSI, S. Sookhai FRCSI, D. Evoy FRCSI, M. Ryan FRCSI, G. C. O’Sullivan MCh, FRCSI, H. P. Redmond MCh, FRCSI
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Editorials

Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation for Localized Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas: Great Logic, Grim Reality

Robert A. Wolff MD
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Does the Tumor Status of the Regional Lymph Nodes Really Matter in Melanoma?

Richard Essner MD, FACS, Donald L. Morton MD, FACS
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Is an FDG-PET Scan the New Imaging Standard for Colon Cancer?

Richard S. Swanson MD
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Surgery as Adjuvant Therapy? The Treatment of Peritoneal Metastases From Gastrointestinal Malignancy

Andrew M. Lowy MD
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Evaluation of New Diagnostic Tests

David R. McCready MD, MSc
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