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Committee recommended that the TNM staging system be used to stage SCLC in both routine practice and clinical trial design. 4 The standard treatment for LS-SCLC is definitive chemoradiation therapy without surgery; however, whether surgery has a role in

experience . J Clin Oncol 1991 ; 9 : 1138 – 1150 . 19 Hacker NF Berek JS Lagasse LD . Primary cytoreductive surgery for epithelial ovarian cancer . Obstet Gynecol 1983 ; 61 : 413 – 420 . 20 Hoskins WJ Bundy BN Thigpen JT . The

. Philadelphia, PA : Lippincott Williams and Wilkins , 2000 . 2 Passlick B . Can surgery improve local control in small cell lung cancer? Lung Cancer 2001 ; 33 ( Suppl 1 ): S147 – S151 . 3 Kohman LJ . Is there a place for surgery in

Viterbo R Greenberg RE Al-Saleem T Uzzo RG . Prior abdominal surgery and radiation do not complicate the retroperitoneoscopic approach to the kidney or adrenal gland . J Urol 2005 ; 174 : 446 – 450 . 14 Nelson CP Wolf JS Jr . Comparison

As the incidence of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) has increased, so has the number of DCIS survivors. 1 Most patients with DCIS are treated with breast-conserving surgery (BCS). 2 Radiation therapy (RT) and antiestrogen therapy (AET) have been

Use of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) in the management of early-stage cervical cancer (ESCC), previously considered an acceptable alternative to open surgery, 1 was recently challenged by results of the Laparoscopic Approach to Cervical

Cancer suggest consideration of radiation therapy (RT) with concurrent chemotherapy in larger T2 or T3 lesions not amenable to up-front organ-sparing surgery. 3 However, minimal published data, either retrospective or prospective, exists for patients

, 2007 . CA Cancer J Clin 2007 ; 57 : 43 – 66 . 3. Kelsen DP Ginsberg R Pajak TF . Chemotherapy followed by surgery compared with surgery alone for localized esophageal cancer . N Engl J Med 1998 ; 339 : 1979 – 1984 . 4

clinical trials. Early trials showed that extended surgery (“local therapy”) does not improve mortality over less aggressive surgery. Trials conducted in the 1970s and 1980s clearly showed that radical surgery involving removal of the breast provides no

positive peritoneal cytology, who represent a high-risk subgroup, and identify the 20% to 30% of patients with presumed localized cancer who in fact have low-volume peritoneal disease. 13 , 14 Surgery Surgery is the primary treatment for localized