JOGS Article Review: "Creative pancreatectomy provides durable therapy for chronic pancreatitis

In this edition of SSAT Mentor Spotlight, Dr. Praveen Chatani, Surgical Oncologist Fellow at Fox Chase Cancer Center, and Dr. Raja Narayan, Assistant Professor at Loma Linda University and both members of the Resident and Fellow Education Committee, interview Dr. Syed Ahmad, the Cancer Center Co-Director, Hayden Family Endowed Chair for Cancer Research, Professor of Surgery, and Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at the University of Cincinnati, and Dr. Michael D'Angelica, Vice Chair of Education, Enid A. Haupt Chair in Surgery, and Emeritus Program Director for the HPB and Surgical Oncology Fellowships at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as well as Professor of Surgery at Cornell.

Surgeons may consider parenchymal-sparing hepatectomy (PSH) or major hepatectomy (MH) for patients with bilateral colorectal liver metastases (CLMs). This study aimed to evaluate the outcomes between PSH and MH for patients with extensive, bilateral CLMs.

Mateo Lendoire ∙ Harufumi Maki ∙ Antony Haddad ∙ … ∙ Ching-Wei D. Tzeng ∙ Jean-Nicolas Vauthey ∙ Timothy E. Newhook

Disparities in access to surgical resection in patients with pancreatic cancer - a systematic review