Native Americans are located throughout the United States in both urban and rural environments. In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Drs. Michelle Huyser, Jennifer Erdrich, and Vanessa Jensen discuss challenges and unique aspects of providing Native American Cancer Care to this population from both an academic as well as community perspective.

Listen to Part 2 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. Maggie DiNome and Andrea Barrio, are joined by Karen Price, Senior Revenue Manager - Department of Surgery, at Duke University. They will focus on an in-depth discussion of coding strategies and tips to improve billing, understand the use of relevant modifiers, and the use of time-based billing.

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, the Breast DSWG and the Community Practice Surgeons Committee examine emerging technologies in the ablative setting for patients with breast cancer.

Join us for Part 1 of this 4-part Women in Cancer Surgery podcast series on finance hosted through SurgOnc Today. In this episode, Chair of the Women in Cancer Surgery Committee, Dr. Sarah McLaughlin, and Committee Member, Dr. Aimee Crago, will be joined by Alice Rigdon, Chief Financial Officer at the Mayo Clinic in Florida to provide a primer on financial literacy as it relates to department, division, and institutional finances. It will provide a broad framework of common terms and associated financial definitions.

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.