we should surveil them.” Lymph Node Dissection Dr. Boland reminded clinicians that many patients with early-stage disease can be cured with surgery alone. Management of this patient population begins with a wide local excision and in some cases
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Christopher Gilbert, Lonny Yarmus, and David Feller-Kopman
operating theater for resection and lymph node dissection. Current Strategies for Staging the Mediastinum Mediastinoscopy had been considered the “gold standard” for evaluation of the mediastinum. However, mediastinoscopy has several limitations, and
Angela Jain, Paula D. Ryan, and Michael V. Seiden
of ascitic fluid or peritoneal lavage, total abdominal hysterectomy, omentectomy, aortic and pelvic lymph node dissection, and complete debulking of any visible tumor (which may include bowel, liver, distal pancreatic resection, partial cystectomy
Clair J. Beard, Shilpa Gupta, Robert J. Motzer, Elizabeth K. O'Donnell, Elizabeth R. Plimack, Kim A. Margolin, Charles J. Ryan, Joel Sheinfeld, and Darren R. Feldman
retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND), although RPLND is reserved for specialty centers and is currently less often used. 6 All 3 strategies are well studied, and adjuvant BEP chemotherapy versus RPLND was subjected to a prospective randomized study by
Robert J. Motzer, Neeraj Agarwal, Clair Beard, Sam Bhayani, Graeme B. Bolger, Michael A. Carducci, Sam S. Chang, Toni K. Choueiri, Steven L. Hancock, Gary R. Hudes, Eric Jonasch, David Josephson, Timothy M. Kuzel, Ellis G. Levine, Daniel W. Lin, Kim A. Margolin, M. Dror Michaelson, Thomas Olencki, Roberto Pili, Thomas W. Ratliff, Bruce G. Redman, Cary N. Robertson, Charles J. Ryan, Joel Sheinfeld, Philippe E. Spiess, Jue Wang, and Richard B. Wilder
-term survival. Lymph node dissection is not considered therapeutic but does provide prognostic information, because virtually all patients with nodal involvement subsequently relapse with distant metastases despite lymphadenectomy. The updated EORTC phase III
William J. Gradishar, Benjamin O. Anderson, Ron Balassanian, Sarah L. Blair, Harold J. Burstein, Amy Cyr, Anthony D. Elias, William B. Farrar, Andres Forero, Sharon Hermes Giordano, Matthew P. Goetz, Lori J. Goldstein, Steven J. Isakoff, Janice Lyons, P. Kelly Marcom, Ingrid A. Mayer, Beryl McCormick, Meena S. Moran, Ruth M. O'Regan, Sameer A. Patel, Lori J. Pierce, Elizabeth C. Reed, Kilian E. Salerno, Lee S. Schwartzberg, Amy Sitapati, Karen Lisa Smith, Mary Lou Smith, Hatem Soliman, George Somlo, Melinda Telli, John H. Ward, Dorothy A. Shead, and Rashmi Kumar
recommendations for situations where axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) can be omitted in women with stages I, II, and IIIA (T3N1M0) breast cancer; for whole-breast radiation therapy (WBRT) using hypofractionation, updates regarding accelerated partial breast
Chunkit Fung, Sophie D. Fossa, Clair J. Beard, and Lois B. Travis
Cisplatin-based chemotherapy 22 and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) 23 – 25 are the cornerstones of nonseminoma management. Radiation treatment is generally reserved for patients with symptomatic metastases that are resistant to chemotherapy
for Breast Cancer. “An incredible amount of progress has been made in surgical procedures and treatment based on tumor characteristics.” From a surgical standpoint, said Dr. Gradishar, axillary lymph node dissection was the standard of care in 1996
Presenters: Valencia D. Thomas, Michael K. Wong, and Andrew J. Bishop
—this, according to Dr. Bishop, was enough of a response to render the tumor resectable. Sixteen lymph nodes were removed during axillary lymph node dissection and were negative for any viable metastatic carcinoma, resulting in a pathologic CR. According to Dr
Venkata Pokuri, Norbert Sule, Yousef Soofi, Bo Xu, Khurshid Guru, and Saby George
. Therefore, chemotherapy was discontinued and she underwent a robot-assisted radical cystectomy with open construction of an ileal neobladder and an extended bilateral pelvic lymph node dissection. Figure 1 CT scan showing irregular necrotic mass at
