Treatment patterns and outcomes for patients with adrenocortical carcinoma associated with hospital case volume in the United States.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rising incidence of incidental thyroid carcinoma (ITC) detected during fluoro-2-deoxy-D: -glucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) scanning poses a challenge to clinicians. The present study aims to critically evaluate the clinicopathological characteristics of ITC detect...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Law TT,Lang BH

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tumor growth and metastases require the development of new vessels (angiogenesis). Angiogenesis, assessed by microvessel count using immunocytochemical stain of endothelial cells, has been shown to predict metastases and correlate with early death. Recently developed color Doppler mapping can detect the "tum...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Lee WJ,Chu JS,Houng SJ,Chung MF,Wang SM,Chen KM

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Remnant gastric cancer (RGC) has a major impact on the long-term survival of postgastrectomy patients. In this study, we established surveillance endoscopy guidelines for postgastrectomy patients based on the risk of RGC. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A total of 6365 patients who underwent gastrectomy at Seoul St. M...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Han ES,Seo HS,Kim JH,Lee HH

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In several neoplastic diseases, including breast cancer, immunosuppression correlates with disease stage, progression, and outcome. Thus, thorough analysis of immune parameters in breast cancer patients may be beneficial in designing effective anticancer immune-based therapies. METHODS:We investigated dendr...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Pockaj BA,Basu GD,Pathangey LB,Gray RJ,Hernandez JL,Gendler SJ,Mukherjee P

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multidisciplinary treatment of rectal cancer, including neoadjuvant treatment, total mesorectal excision, and adjuvant chemotherapy, have improved oncological outcome. Preoperative radiation therapy is advocated by national and international guidelines in all patients with AJCC stage II and III rectal cancer...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Franz C,Lang HM,Ghamarnejad O,Khajeh E,Mehrabi A,Ulrich A,Schneider M,Büchler MW,Kulu Y

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The treatment of Wilms' tumor has undergone major advances in the past four decades. Current therapy is based on both the stage and pathology of the tumor. We have reviewed our recent experience with this tumor to assess the results of treatment on protocols that generally avoid the use of doxorubicin. METH...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Shamberger RC,Macklis RM,Sallan SE

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trastuzumab in association with systemic cytotoxic chemotherapy is the standard of care for patients with advanced HER2-positive gastric carcinoma (GC). However, HER2 as a prognostic factor in GC remains controversial. METHODS:HER2 overexpression and amplification was evaluated by immunohistochemistry (IHC)...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Cho J,Jeong J,Sung J,Sung CO,Kim KM,Park CK,Choi MG,Sohn TS,Bae JM,Kim S

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, many studies have demonstrated the feasibility and accuracy of sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy for patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). However, no studies have been conducted to evaluate the accuracy of frozen section (FS) analysis of SLN in NAC-treated patients. The aim was to e...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Shimazu K,Tamaki Y,Taguchi T,Tsukamoto F,Kasugai T,Noguchi S

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence and significance of free cancer cells in the peritoneal cavity of clinically M0 gastric cancer patients is unknown. We reviewed our results with peritoneal washings to determine (1) the prevalence of positive cytology in M0 and M1 disease and (2) the influence of positive cytology on the patte...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Burke EC,Karpeh MS Jr,Conlon KC,Brennan MF

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Visceral fat accumulation and muscle depletion have been identified as poor prognostic factors for various cancers. However, the significance of visceral adiposity and sarcopenic visceral obesity on outcomes after resection of pancreatic cancer remains unclear. METHODS:A retrospective analysis of 301 patien...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Okumura S,Kaido T,Hamaguchi Y,Kobayashi A,Shirai H,Yao S,Yagi S,Kamo N,Hatano E,Okajima H,Takaori K,Uemoto S

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The FAK gene encodes a 125-kDa tyrosine kinase (p125FAK) involved in signal transduction pathways used in cell adhesion, motility, and anchorage-independent growth. Because thyroid carcinomas have a wide variability in their propensity for invasion and metastasis, we studied the expression of FAK in a variet...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Owens LV,Xu L,Dent GA,Yang X,Sturge GC,Craven RJ,Cance WG

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Isolated hepatic perfusion has been used in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) metastatic to the liver. We sought to determine whether perfusion with antisense oligodeoxynucleotides results in the downregulation of beta-catenin and whether this improves tumor response to isolated limb perfusion (ILP) in a...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Canter RJ,Kesmodel SB,Heitjan DF,Veeramachaneni NK,Mokadam NA,Drebin JA,Fraker DL

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lymph node involvement is a very important prognostic factor for cutaneous melanoma. In this paper we try to validate a nomogram that was created at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, to predict the probability of metastases in the sentinel nodes of patients with cutaneous melanoma. METHO...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Piñero A,Canteras M,Ortiz E,Martínez-Barba E,Parrilla P

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The LAP07 randomized trial calls into question the role of radiation therapy (RT) in the modern treatment of locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC). However, advances in chemotherapy and RT limit application of the LAP07 results to current clinical practice. Here we utilize the National Cancer Database (N...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Zhong J,Switchenko J,Behera M,Kooby D,Maithel SK,McDonald MW,Lin JY,Cassidy RJ,El-Rayes B,Landry J,Patel PR

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Guidelines regarding specific resection margins for primary Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) are not well established. The current National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines recommend 1- to 2-cm resection margins. This study aimed to determine the impact of margin width on local recurrence (LR), dise...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Perez MC,de Pinho FR,Holstein A,Oliver DE,Naqvi SMH,Kim Y,Messina JL,Burke E,Gonzalez RJ,Sarnaik AA,Cruse CW,Wuthrick EJ,Harrison LB,Sondak VK,Zager JS

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cancer registries have been set up worldwide to provide information for cancer health planning. There are known variations in breast cancer incidence and mortality worldwide. However, breast cancer incidence, pathological characteristics, and survival data is still under-reported in Asian countries. This is ...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Kwong A,Mang OW,Wong CH,Chau WW,Law SC,Hong Kong Breast Cancer Research Group.

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Postoperative chemoradiation and perioperative chemotherapy using epirubicin/cisplatin/5-fluorouracil (ECF) represent two standards of care for resectable gastric cancer. In the TOPGEAR (Trial Of Preoperative therapy for Gastric and Esophagogastric junction AdenocaRcinoma) trial, we hypothesized that adding ...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Leong T,Smithers BM,Haustermans K,Michael M,Gebski V,Miller D,Zalcberg J,Boussioutas A,Findlay M,O'Connell RL,Verghis J,Willis D,Kron T,Crain M,Murray WK,Lordick F,Swallow C,Darling G,Simes J,Wong R

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selected patients with hepatocellular carcinoma are candidates to receive potentially curative treatments, such as hepatic resection or liver transplantation, but nevertheless there is a high risk of tumor recurrence. Microvascular invasion is a histological feature of hepatocellular carcinoma related to aggressive bi...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Rodríguez-Perálvarez M,Luong TV,Andreana L,Meyer T,Dhillon AP,Burroughs AK

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Touch imprint cytology (TIC) is a fast, cheap and specific intraoperative examination of the sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) in early breast cancer patients. The results of TIC in patients with ultrasonically (US) uninvolved axillary lymph nodes are not known. The objective of our study was to compare the result...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Perhavec A,Besić N,Hocevar M,Zgajnar J

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although often proposed as a means to reduce the harmful consequences of tumor spill, water lavage has yet to be systematically evaluated in relevant in vitro and in vivo models. This study evaluates the mechanisms and utility of a single water lavage to improve the sequelae of tumor spill during laparotomy....

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Ito F,Camoriano M,Seshadri M,Evans SS,Kane JM 3rd,Skitzki JJ

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of novel molecules implicated in the malignancy of gastric cancer (GC) is key to the development of personalized treatments and the improvement of patient outcome. Neurotrophin receptor-interacting melanoma antigen-encoding protein (NRAGE) regulates apoptosis and metastasis via interactions wi...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Kanda M,Shimizu D,Fujii T,Tanaka H,Tanaka Y,Ezaka K,Shibata M,Takami H,Hashimoto R,Sueoka S,Iwata N,Kobayashi D,Tanaka C,Yamada S,Nakayama G,Sugimoto H,Koike M,Fujiwara M,Kodera Y

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was designed to identify the prevalence of BRAF mutations in Chinese patients with lung adenocarcinoma, and to reveal the association between BRAF mutations and clinicopathological characteristics in these patients. METHODS:From October 2007 to February 2013, patients with newly diagnosed primary...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Zheng D,Wang R,Pan Y,Zheng S,Zhang Y,Li H,Cheng C,Gong R,Li Y,Shen X,Hu H,Cai D,Cheng X,Sun Y,Chen H

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peritoneal metastasis of colonic origin is associated with a poor prognosis. This study aimed to analyze the clinicopathologic characteristics and prognostic predictors of survival in a cohort of patients treated with cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and perioperative intraperitoneal chemotherapy (POIC) during tw...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Ihemelandu C,Sugarbaker PH

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of routine CT imaging for surveillance in asymptomatic patients with cutaneous melanoma is controversial. We report our experience using a surveillance strategy that included CT imaging for a cohort of patients with high-risk melanoma. METHODS:A total of 466 patients with high-risk cutaneous melanom...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Park TS,Phan GQ,Yang JC,Kammula U,Hughes MS,Trebska-McGowan K,Morton KE,White DE,Rosenberg SA,Sherry RM

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There have been no nationwide surveys of postoperative adverse events (AEs) after musculoskeletal tumor surgery focusing on their severity. Therefore, we developed a nomogram to predict severe AEs after musculoskeletal tumor surgery. METHODS:We identified patients in the Diagnosis Procedure Combination data...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Ogura K,Yasunaga H,Horiguchi H,Fushimi K,Tanaka S,Kawano H

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to determine the prognostic significance of preoperative carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and carbohydrate antigen (CA) 19-9 levels in patients with resectable gastric cancer (GC). PATIENTS AND METHODS:Patients who underwent a radical resection for GC at the Fujian Medical University ...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Lin JX,Wang W,Lin JP,Xie JW,Wang JB,Lu J,Chen QY,Cao LL,Lin M,Tu R,Zheng CH,Huang CM,Zhou ZW,Li P

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study investigated the effects of preoperative chemoradiotherapy (PCRT) and the prognoses of patients with mucinous rectal cancer compared with those with nonmucinous cancer. METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 368 patients who underwent curative resection after PCRT, between 200...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Shin US,Yu CS,Kim JH,Kim TW,Lim SB,Yoon SN,Yoon YS,Kim CW,Kim JC

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myxoid liposarcoma (MLS), the second most common subtype of liposarcoma, occurs predominantly in the extremities of young adults and has a disproportionately high tendency to metastasize to unusual soft tissue locations, before disseminated spread or pulmonary metastases. Anecdotal evidence, mainly supported...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Schwab JH,Boland P,Guo T,Brennan MF,Singer S,Healey JH,Antonescu CR

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With increasing interest in neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), three staging systems for NETs of the colon and rectum have been published. Their prognostic relevance has not been examined and compared in an independent clinical database. METHODS:From the National Cancer Database (NCDB), 5457 patients diagnosed w...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Chagpar R,Chiang YJ,Xing Y,Cormier JN,Feig BW,Rashid A,Chang GJ,You YN

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As increased focus is placed on quality of care in surgery, readmission is an increasingly important metric by which hospital and surgeon quality is measured. For complex pancreatic surgery, we hypothesized that increased pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) volume may mitigate readmission rates. METHODS:The Univer...

journal_title：Annals of surgical oncology

authors： Sutton JM,Wilson GC,Wima K,Hoehn RS,Cutler Quillin R 3rd,Hanseman DJ,Paquette IM,Sussman JJ,Ahmad SA,Shah SA,Abbott DE

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00