Translational Cancer Research For Surgeons An Issue Of Surgical Oncology Clinics

This issue of the Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America, Guest Edited by Dr. William G. Cance, is devoted to Translational Cancer Research for Surgeons. Translational Cancer research aims to move bench research to the bedside by applying basic science toward potential therapies. This issue will present the concepts of translational research and development of targeted therapeutics, and its implications for surgeons. It will show clinical applications for surgeons regarding sarcoma/GIST, melanoma, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, and endocrine cancer.

This issue of the Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America, Guest Edited by Dr. William G. Cance, is devoted to Translational Cancer Research for Surgeons. Translational Cancer research aims to move bench research to the bedside by applying basic science toward potential therapies. This issue will present the concepts of translational research and development of targeted therapeutics, and its implications for surgeons. It will show clinical applications for surgeons regarding sarcoma/GIST, melanoma, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, and endocrine cancer.

This issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America, guest edited by Dr. Elin R. Sigurdson, is devoted to Clinical Trials in Surgical Oncology. Dr. Sigurdson has assembled expert authors to review the following topics: Commentary on Randomized Controlled Trials; Randomized Clinical Trials in Soft Tissue Sarcoma; Randomized Clinical Trials in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors; Randomized Clinical Trials in Melanoma; Randomized Clinical Trials in Breast Cancer; Randomized Clinical Trials in Gastroesophageal Carcinoma; Randomized Clinical Trials in Hepatocellular Carcinoma; An Update on Randomized Clinical Trials in Advanced and Metastatic Colorectal Carcinoma; Randomized Clinical Trials in Colon and Rectal Cancer; Randomized Clinical Trials in Anal Cancers; The Elderly in Randomized Clinical Trials; Hereditary Syndromes in Clinical Trials; Future Clinical Trials: Genetically Driven Trials; Randomized Clinical Trials in Neuroendocrine Tumors, and more!

In this issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America, Guest Editor Clifford Ko, MD has assembled the top experts concerning Outcomes Research in Oncology. Topics in this issue will include: Currently Available Quality Initiatives in Surgical Oncology; Variation in Mortality After High Risk Cancer Surgery: Failure to Rescue; Readmission as a Quality Measure Following High Risk Cancer Surgery; Randomized Controlled Trials in Surgical Oncology: Where Do We Stand?; Lymph Node Staging in GI Malignancies; Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Cancer Care; Patient Safety in Surgical Oncology: Perspective from the Operating Room; Value Based Health Care: A Surgical Oncologist Perspective; Monitoring the Delivery of Cancer Care: Commission on Cancer and National Cancer Data Base; Prediction Tools in Surgical Oncology; Collaboration With the Community Cancer Center: Benefit for All; and Evaluating the Appropriateness of Cancer Care in the United States.

This issue of the Surgical Oncology Clinics will review the important clinical trials from the past eight years in following topics: breast cancer, soft tissue sarcoma, rectal and anal carcinoma, pancreatic adenocarcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, gastric cancer, esophageal cancer, colon cancer, advanced and metastatic colorectal carcinoma, gastrointestinal stromal tumors, and melanoma.

This issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America, Guest Edited by John M. Kane III, MD, is devoted to Sarcomas. Articles in this issue include: Prognostic Factors and Staging for Soft Tissue Sarcomas; Margin Status and Local Recurrence: Correlation or Causation?; Systemic Chemotherapy in the Adjuvant and Clinical Metastatic Setting; Pulmonary Metastasectomy; Regional Therapy for Advanced Extremity Sarcomas; Current Approaches to Retroperitoneal Sarcomas; Updates on the Management of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST); Soft Tissue Sarcoma: Immunologic Implications; Atypical Lipomatous Tumor/Well Differentiated Liposarcoma: What is it?; Modern Surgical Therapy: Limb Salvage and the Role of Amputation; Adjuvant Radiation Therapy: and Preoperative, Postoperative, or Not at All.

This issue will include three general articles on translational research in surgical oncology (genomic/expression profile in predicting cancer outcomes, target-specific therapy in solid tumors, molecular pathology) and nine articles on translational research in specific organ sites (melanoma, colorectal cancer, breast, Gastric, lung, MEN, pancreatic, neuroendocrine and liver)

This issue of Surgical Clinics of North America focuses on Surgical Oncology for the General Surgeon and is edited by Drs. Neal Wilkinson and Randall Zuckerman. Articles will include: Cancer Incidence and Trends; Cancer Genetics; Imaging and Interventional Radiology for Cancer Management; Esophagus and GE Junction Tumors; Gastric Cancer; Primary Liver Cancers; Metastatic Cancer to Liver; Pancreas Solid Tumors; Pancreas Cystic Lesions; Peritoneal Cancers and HIPEC; Rectal Cancer; Anal Cancer; Neuroendocrine Tumors; Soft Tissue Tumors of the Abdomen; Soft Tissue Tumors of the Extremities; and more!