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Infusion Technique
Patients presenting with severe burden of disease with either in transit lesions or large, unresectable tumors, limited to a single limb, are generally not considered for surgical resection, as we aim to provi...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Local and Recurrent Regional Metastases of Melanoma
Up to 10% of patients with cutaneous melanoma will develop recurrent locoregional disease. While surgical resection remains the mainstay of treatment for isolated recurrences, locoregional melanoma can often p...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Local and Recurrent Regional Metastases of Melanoma
Up to 10% of patients with cutaneous melanoma will develop recurrent locoregional disease. While surgical resection remains the mainstay of treatment for isolated recurrences, locoregional melanoma can often p...
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Laparoscopic skill assessment of practicing surgeons prior to enrollment in a surgical trial of a new laparoscopic procedure
Outcomes of surgical trials hinge on surgeon selection and their underlying expertise. Assessment of expertise is paramount. We investigated whether surgeons’ performance measured by the fundamentals of laparo...
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Predicting Pathological Response to Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer Using 18FDG-PET/CT
Pathologic complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant chemoradiation (CRT) has been observed in 15–30% of patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC). The objective of this study was to determine whethe...
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Hereditary Breast Cancer Syndromes
Breast cancer represents a major public health problem in the world. According to the GLOBOCAN database, breast cancer is the second most common cancer in the world and the most common cancer among women, acco...