Medical Oncology

Surgical Oncology

Questions discussed in this category

In patients with inflammatory bowel disease with low rectal cancer with planned proctocolectomy, would you consider creation of a pouch?

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What is the threshold for negative surgical margins in multifocal microinvasive carcinoma of the breast?

Do you follow invasive or DCIS guidelines? Would you consider re-excision in a patient with multifocal microinvasive carcinoma of the breast arising i...

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How do you counsel your breast-cancer survivors about weight-loss/dietary modifications?

Do your recommendations differ if patients are pre or postmenopausal given the data?

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When do you recommend endocrine therapy for chemoprevention in women with high risk benign breast lesions?

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What is your approach to young healthy women with locally advanced breast cancer and biopsy-proven low cervical lymph nodes?

Would you treat this as a locally advanced breast cancer and offer surgery, radiation, and systemic therapy? Does your management change depending on ...

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Should one perform a sentinel node biopsy in a clinically negative axilla prior to neoadjuvant chemotherapy?

NSABP B51 and B52 specifically prohibit this.

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Is sentinel lymph node biopsy several weeks after partial mastectomy as reliable as sentinel lymph node biopsy done at the time of partial mastectomy?

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How do you counsel women with a history of breast cancer who have dense breasts, with regards to mammography screening?

Is there a role for routine use of additional or alternative imaging modalities for these patients, such as tomosynthesis, MRI, or ultrasound? I...

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How do you approach prostate cancer patients with persistent obstructive lower urinary tract symptoms after primary radiation therapy?

Or in patients with metastatic disease on ADT who have not had primary therapy? In what situations do you consider palliative prostatectomy?

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How do you decide when to refer a patient with metastatic renal cell carcinoma for cytoreductive nephrectomy?

How has CARMENA changed your practice?

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Papers discussed in this category

The breast journal, 1999-01

Mammographically Occult Breast Cancers.

Annals of surgical oncology, 2010-10

Impact of breast density on the presenting features of malignancy.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2006-12-20

Dietary fat reduction and breast cancer outcome: interim efficacy results from the Women's Intervention Nutrition Study.

Medicine and science in sports and exercise, 2010-07

American College of Sports Medicine roundtable on exercise guidelines for cancer survivors.

J Clin Oncol, 2016 Feb 20

American Cancer Society/American Society of Clinical Oncology Breast Cancer Survivorship Care Guideline.

Curr Breast Cancer Rep, 2016-01-01

Reducing the Risk of Breast Cancer Recurrence: an Evaluation of the Effects and Mechanisms of Diet and Exercise.

Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr, 2018 Apr 19

Meat, eggs, full-fat dairy, and nutritional boogeymen: Does the way in which animals are raised affect health differently in humans?

JAMA, 2018-02-20

Effect of Low-Fat vs Low-Carbohydrate Diet on 12-Month Weight Loss in Overweight Adults and the Association With Genotype Pattern or Insulin Secretion: The DIETFITS Randomized Clinical Trial.

JAMA Oncol,

Prolonged Nightly Fasting and Breast Cancer Prognosis.

Breast Cancer Res. Treat., 2005-01-01

The sentinel node biopsy after previous breast surgery: preliminary results on 543 patients treated at the European Institute of Oncology.

Breast, 2016-12-01

Impact of previous surgery on sentinel lymph node mapping: Hybrid SPECT/CT before and after a unilateral diagnostic breast excision.

Zhonghua Zhong Liu Za Zhi, 2016-07-01

[Feasibility analysis of sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with breast cancer after local lumpectomy].

Breast, 2016-08-01

Evaluation of sentinel lymph node biopsy after previous breast surgery for breast cancer: GATA study.

NPJ breast cancer, 2016

Randomized trial of medroxyprogesterone acetate for the prevention of endometrial pathology from adjuvant tamoxifen for breast cancer: SWOG S9630.

Ann. Surg.,

Relationship Between Margin Width and Recurrence of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ: Analysis of 2996 Women Treated With Breast-conserving Surgery for 30 Years.

Journal of Cancer, 2017

DCIS Margins and Breast Conservation: MD Anderson Cancer Center Multidisciplinary Practice Guidelines and Outcomes.

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