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. Neurosurgery 1993 ; 33 : 674 – 678 . 3 Kelly PJ . Stereotactic surgery: what is past is prologue . Neurosurgery 2000 ; 46 : 16 – 27 . 4 Smith KR Frank KJ Bucholz RD . The NeuroStation: a highly accurate, minimally invasive solution

Background Although surgery has a crucial role in colorectal cancer (CRC) treatment, it is associated with considerable risks of postoperative complications and mortality 1 , 2 and a resultant increase in healthcare costs. 3 Severe complications

treated for localized disease, and nearly 30% will be diagnosed with metastatic disease. 2 While surgery remains the primary treatment for localized RCC, 3 treatment options for metastatic RCC have changed markedly in the past decade. Before 2005

Introduction: Cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (CS/HIPEC) has led to improved survival in select patients with peritoneal surface malignancies. Predicting the volume of disease and any unresectable disease is

patients have distant metastatic disease, extraregional nodal disease, or T4b tumors (involvement of the heart, great vessels, trachea), or are unable to tolerate surgery or multimodality therapy because of insufficient functional status. Even with optimal

. Histopathologic validation of lymph node staging with FDG-PET scan in cancer of the esophagus and gastroesophageal junction: a prospective study based on primary surgery with extensive lymphadenectomy . Ann Surg 2000 ; 232 : 743 – 752 . 9. Yun M Lim

Acceptable Option for Invasive Melanoma? Mohs micrographic surgery, traditionally considered contraindicated for invasive melanomas, has been studied in melanoma in situ, particularly in cosmetically sensitive areas such as the head and neck. Using this

delays in adjuvant chemotherapy initiation greater than 49 to 90 days after surgery may be associated with inferior outcomes, particularly among patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), HER2-positive subtypes, and higher-stage tumors. 7 – 12 A

of cancer patients having undergone surgery in Montreal (Quebec) to describe their post-discharge opioid use and identify potential patterns of unplanned health service use (ED visits, hospitalizations). Provincial health administrative claims were

probability of survival for x additional years, given y years of accumulated survival. EFS time points used in the CS models consisted of from 1 year up to 10 years after surgery. Second, separate multivariable Cox regression (MCR) models predicting CSM