Surgery

Alessio Pigazzi, MD, PhD, FACS, FASCRS, discussed how robot-assisted surgery for colorectal cancers has evolved over the past 20 years.

Alessio Pigazzi, MD, PhD, FACS, FASCRS, discussed surgical and medical oncology developments in the colorectal cancer field.

A user-friendly “nudge” may provide a timely reminder to surgeons to consider the value of sentinel lymph node biopsy in older patients with breast cancer.

Findings from a retrospective study showed that outpatient robotic hepatectomies resulted in no mortalities across 307 procedures.

Intraoperative radiation therapy may allow surgical and radiation oncologists to collaboratively visualize at-risk areas in patients with cancer.

Positive margin rates have not appeared to improve for patients with cancer undergoing surgical care based on several prior studies.

"Anything that you can do to leverage technology to minimize the variability in surgery eliminates the skill gap so that novice surgeons may become as technically gifted as the intermediate surgeon or the master surgeon."

The CARACO study shows that adding retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy to cytoreductive surgery did not improve survival in advanced ovarian cancer.

Treatment with complete mesocolic excision appears to reduce the length of hospital stay compared with conventional surgery in right colon cancer.

Findings may support bilateral mastectomy as an alternative for symmetry following unilateral mastectomy for breast cancer.

Investigators aim to identify a clinically useful and safe dose of Illuminare-1 for future studies in surgical cancer care.

Patients with cancer who underwent surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic were also more likely to have respiratory complications.

Immunotherapy may be an “elegant” method of managing colorectal cancer, says Gregory Charak, MD.

Administering neoadjuvant therapy to patients with colorectal cancer may help surgical oncologists attain a negative-margin resection.

Laparoscopy may reduce the degree of pain or length of hospital stay compared with open surgery for patients with colorectal cancer.

Roshni Rao, MD, FACS, discussed the use of neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy and its complications in the treatment of patients with triple-negative breast cancer.

DCISionRT is a risk-assessment test for patients designed to predict RT benefit and develop their recurrence risk after surgery alone or with radiation.

ZAP-X may provide submillimeter accuracy when administering radiation to patients with brain tumors.

The latest KEYNOTE-756 data highlight the surgical outcomes of patients with high-risk early-stage estrogen receptor–positive breast cancer.

In clinically node-positive breast cancer, clipping of lymph nodes may induce higher rates of sentinel lymph node surgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Results from the INSITE trial support the utility of pegulicianine fluorescence-guided surgery during breast cancer surgery.

Those aged 18 to 40 years with invasive, HER2-positive breast cancer showed a survival benefit from upfront surgery over neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Patients who are African American appeared to have worse clinical stages of colon and rectal cancer during surgery in 2020.

The recent Hot Topics section focuses on survival rates for patients with cholangiocarcinoma.

Microwave ablation may be a go-to treatment option instead of surgery for patients with multifocal T1N0M0 papillary thyroid cancer.

Oncologic outcomes from a real-world analysis appear to be comparable with those observed in the sentinel lymph node biopsy arm of the SOUND trial.

The National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers looked at time intervals to see where delays occurred throughout the process for those with breast cancer.

Young patients with breast cancer were more likely to be the reason for diagnostic delays vs system delays, partly due to less concern for their symptoms.

In-hospital mortality and complication rates were lower at accredited hospitals vs those not accredited for patients undergoing rectal cancer surgery.

The pilot trial is planning to enroll 20 patients who are deemed inoperable but do not have metastatic disease.