The International Career Development Exchange (ICDE) program provides support for up-and-coming, early career surgical oncologists with leadership potential to receive one-on-one mentoring and engagement with a distinguished senior SSO member.

SSO supports a participant from each of our 15 Global Partner Societies, plus two SSO member participants from countries not connected to one of our Global Partners.

Participants receive complimentary registration for the SSO annual meeting and the opportunity to participate in a minimum one-week clinical observership at a US-based SSO member's institution. Each participant is paired with an SSO Member Mentor with the goal that a long-term professional relationship will develop and continue over the course of the participant's career. In this episode past ICDE recipients are interviewed about their experiences and the impact of the ICDE program on their career trajectories.

In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Dr. Julie Hallet, chair of the HPB disease site working group, and Dr. Callisia Clarke, member of the SSO board of directors, are joined by Dr. Jessica Maxwell and Dr. Alexandra Gangi to explore the evolving field of surgery for neuroendocrine tumors liver metastases. They discuss patient selection, pre-operative optimization, and unique surgical techniques to optimize perioperative and oncologic outcomes.

In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Dr. Julie Hallet and Dr. Patricio Polanco, Chair and Vice-Chair of the SSO HPB Disease Site Working Group review key updates and takeaways from the recent AHPBA Annual Meeting held in March 2025 in Miami. They are joined by Dr. Ryan Ellis and Dr. Michael Lidsky to review clinical trials on locally advanced pancreas cancer, hepatic artery infusion pump, colorectal liver metastases, and pancreas neuroendocrine tumors.

Appendiceal neoplasms present with peritoneal carcinomatosis and despite aggressive CRS/HIPEC, often recur and are chemotherapy resistant. In this Colorectal DSWG SSO sponsored podcast episode, we discuss an overview of the recent publication of "Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 4/6 Inhibition as a Novel Therapy for Peritoneal Mucinous Carcinomatosis with GNAS Mutations" by Dr. Lowy's research lab at UCSD. The authors treated 16 patients in this Phase 2 study of oral Palbociclib in recurrent appendiceal adenocarcinoma patients and identified excellent treatment and long-term response with 13/16 of patients treated having reduction in CEA and excellent survival (median FU of 17.6 months, OS not reached). Dr Lowy provides informative background, study details and discusses next steps for this novel treatment approach.

A link to the paper in question is https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39413348/

In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Laura Dominici, MD is joined by Laura Rosenberger, MD and David Anderson, MD, to discuss the current strategies around diagnosis and management of phyllodes tumors.

Dr. Deepa Magge invited Dr. Belain Eyob and Dr. Kimberly Kopecky to discuss highlights from the 2025 ACT meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. The guests discuss the three major portions of the ACT 2025 conference, including the HPB section, the PSM component, as well as the melanoma and other regional therapies portion.

Listen to the final episode of this 4-part Women in Cancer Surgery podcast series on finance hosted through SurgOnc Today®. In this episode, Dr. Melissa Hogg, a member of the Women in Cancer Surgery Committee, and Dr. Tari King, Chief of Breast Surgery at Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center discuss organizational fund flow and share insights on managing financial matters in the field.

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Dr. Patricio Polanco, from the University of Texas Southwestern and Vice-chair of the SSO HPB disease site working group, and Dr. Sandra DiBrito, from Albany Medical College and member of the HPB disease site working group, are joined by Dr. Marc Besselink, of Amsterdam University Medical Center, and Dr. Amer Zureikat, of University of Pittsburgh. This is the second episode in our Minimally Invasive Techniques in Hepatobiliary Surgery Series. We will focus today on minimally invasive pancreas surgery.

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Dr. Patricio Polanco from the University of Texas Southwestern and Vice-chair of the SSO HPB disease site working group and Dr. Sandra DiBrito from Albany Medical College and member of the HPB disease site working group are joined by Dr. Asmund Fretland of the University of Oslo and Dr. Laleh Melstrom of City of Hope. This is the first episode in our Minimally Invasive Techniques in Hepatobiliary Surgery Series. We will focus on the minimally invasive surgery techniques on the liver, discussing patient selection, benefits of the MIS approach, potential drawbacks, and the impact of this approach on patient outcomes.

Listen to Part 3 of this 4-part Women in Cancer Surgery podcast series on finance hosted through SurgOnc Today®. In this episode, Women in Cancer Surgery Committee Members, Drs. Anita Mamtani and Erika Schmitz, are joined by Bryan Neel, Lead Staff Financial Planner for Physicians and Executives at the Mayo Clinic in Florida. Together, they'll discuss financial literacy as it relates to insurance, disability, retirement, and more.