In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Dr. Rebecca Snyder, from the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Dr. Akhil Chawla, from Northwestern University, both members of the HPB disease site working group, are joined by Dr. Cristina Ferrone, from Cedars Sinai Medical Center, and Dr. Steven Gallinger, from the University of Toronto. We will discuss the details, similarities, and differences of their respective clinical trials for neoadjuvant therapy for pancreatic adenocarcinoma, ALLIANCE A021806, and NeoPancONE.  

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ALLIANCE A021806

NeoPancONE

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Micah Brainerd, MD, is joined by Dr. Mediget Teshome, MD, MPH, Dr. Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD, FSSO, and Dr. Anthony Visioni, MD, reflecting on their journeys to their current leadership position, and the advice they would give their younger selves as they navigated the process. This is the second of the two-part series where each will discuss their ways of managing the demanding career of a surgical oncologist with their personal lives.

Speaking of SurgOnc® has a new home! New episodes can now be found under the Society of Surgical Oncology's podcast, SurgOnc Today®, available on all major podcast platforms. Subscribe today to receive updates on new episode releases.  In this new episode of Speaking of SurgOnc®, Dr. Rick Greene discusses with Dr. Mark Truty the prognosis, and response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy, of resected invasive intraductal papillary mucinous cystic neoplasms compared with de novo pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, as reported in their article, "Outcomes of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Invasive Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm Compared with de Novo Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma."

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Micah Brainerd, MD, is joined by Dr. Mediget Teshome, MD, MPH, Dr. Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD, FSSO, and Dr. Anthony Visioni, MD, who reflect on their journeys to their current leadership positions and the advice they would give their younger selves as they navigated the process. This is the first of a two-part series where each will discuss their journey to their current leadership positions and reflect on their professional growth in and out of the operating room.

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Dr. Olga Kantor discusses with Dr. Chandler Cortina and Dr. Puneet Singh the locoregional highlights of the 2024 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, including the COMET, INSEMA, EUROPA and Alliance 11202 trials.

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Drs. Colleen Kiernan, Heather Wachtel, and Jason Liu review endocrine surgery topics for the oral boards. They discuss three endocrine related, oral board style questions and highlight important aspects of each topic. 

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Dr. Sinziana Dumitra discusses the evaluation and management of patients with peritoneal metastases from MSI-high colorectal cancer with Dr. Joshua Leinwand and Dr. Zachary Brown, including the role of HIPEC, immunotherapy, and differences in clinical characteristics and outcomes compared with microsatellite-stable disease.

Speaking of SurgOnc has a new home! New episodes can now be found under the Society of Surgical Oncology's podcast, SurgOnc Today®, available on all major podcast platforms. Subscribe today to receive updates on new episode releases. In this new episode of the ASO Episode Series of SurgOnc Today® (previously Speaking of SurgOnc), Dr. Rick Greene discusses with Dr. Michael Offin the clinicopathologic characteristics and outcomes of a large prospective cohort of well-differentiated papillary peritoneal mesothelial tumors, as reported in their article, "Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients with Well-Differentiated Papillary Peritoneal Mesothelial Tumors."

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Steve Kwon, MD, and Mike Mavros, MD, are joined by Joo Ha Hwang, MD, and Yanghee Woo, MD, for a discussion of managing patients at high-risk of gastric cancer development at the population-level and at the patient-level. The panel will also discuss nonoperative and operative strategies in managing precancerous gastric lesions and early gastric cancers.

In this SurgOnc Today® SOI Article Series episode, Dr. Shishir Maithel, Editor of Surgical Oncology Insight, discusses with Dr. Heather Wachtel and Dr. Sara Ginzberg rates of guideline-concordant postoperative radioactive iodine therapy in patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancer across six constituent hospitals, before and after the release of the 2015 American Thyroid Association guidelines, as reported in their article, "Implementation of the 2015 American Thyroid Association Guideline Changes Across a Health System: A Quality Improvement Opportunity."