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formed. The committee comprises various experts in thoracic oncology, including medical and clinical oncology, radiation oncology, pulmonology medicine, thoracic surgery, radiology, and pathology. The committee convened twice and corresponded frequently

: long-term results of the Rizzoli's 4th protocol . Eur J Cancer 2001 ; 37 : 2030 – 2039 . 37. Bacci G Picci P Ferrari S . Primary chemotherapy and delayed surgery for nonmetastatic osteosarcoma of the extremities. Results in 164 patients

detect and diagnose early-stage cancers, identify metastases noninvasively, and guide tumor removal during surgery. For image-guided surgery, the use of targeted nanoparticles to identify lesions has been an active area of investigation. In general

as surgery or radiation therapy, may provide palliation of symptoms caused by local tumor growth, the cornerstone of treatment for metastatic melanoma is systemic therapy to address the clinical and subclinical sites of metastases. Chemotherapeutic

this disease, patients need careful consideration of treatment choice given the risk of potential toxicities from treatment and potential benefits. Surgery Partial hepatectomy is a potentially curative therapy for patients with a solitary tumor of

performance status, and quick wound healing, which allowed her to receive chemotherapy within 4 weeks of the esophageal surgery. In an alternate scenario, if this patient had only undergone superficial parotidectomy, she would have been treated as stage IV

newly diagnosed patients, postoperative therapy with nivolumab after preoperative chemoradiation and surgery in patients who have achieved R0 resections but have residual disease is a category 1 recommendation. For the first-line treatment of advanced

validated tools ( Table 1 ). Multiple studies have found that the CGA is more sensitive than performance status in determining functional impairment and risks associated with chemotherapy or surgery. 5 The CGA can uncover age-related issues in up to 50% of

, accounting for 25% of malignant tumors in the major salivary glands and 50% in the minor glands. 2 The natural disease process is characterized by prolonged progression and multiple recurrences. 3 , 4 Surgery has been considered the most important treatment

squamous epithelial cells (original magnification, ×20). At his follow-up visit 5 months after the surgery, the patient continued to have persistent headaches and peripheral vision loss, but they were milder than the initial symptoms reported before surgery