The survival impact of the choice of surgical procedure after ipsilateral breast cancer recurrenceSteven L Chen
Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of California Davis Medical Center, 4501 X St, Suite 3010, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Am J Surg 196:495-9. 2008
..Many women with breast cancer recurrence previously treated with breast-conservation therapy desire repeat lumpectomies. We hypothesized that women undergoing mastectomy for breast cancer recurrence would show superior survival...
Adjuvant external beam radiation for medullary thyroid carcinomaSteve R Martinez
Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, UC Davis Cancer Center, University of California at Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
J Surg Oncol 102:175-8. 2010
..Adjuvant radiation is rarely used to treat medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). We hypothesized that external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) would improve overall survival (OS) in MTC patients...
- Do radiation use disparities influence survival in patients with advanced breast cancer?
Steve R Martinez
Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Cancer 118:196-204. 2012
..They hypothesized that disparities in the use of RT were associated with survival differences favoring white patients...
- Disparities in the use of radiation therapy in patients with local-regionally advanced breast cancer
Steve R Martinez
Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 78:787-92. 2010
..Radiation therapy (RT) is indicated for the treatment of local-regionally advanced breast cancer (BCa)...
An evaluation of lymph node yield and lymph node ratio in well-differentiated thyroid carcinomaShannon H Beal
University of California at Davis, Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, UC Davis Cancer Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Am Surg 76:28-32. 2010
..The decrease in survival associated with increasing LNY, even in node-negative patients, indicates that nodal understaging is inconsequential to WDTC survival...
- Survival in 12,653 breast cancer patients with extensive axillary lymph node metastasis in the anthracycline era
Shannon H Beal
Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Med Oncol 27:1420-4. 2010
..90, 95% Confidence Interval [CI] 0.84-0.96) and DSS (HR 0.84, CI 0.79-0.91). Both OS and DSS are poor in patients with extensive ALN metastases. Patients with advanced breast cancer treated in the post-AE demonstrated superior OS and DSS...
- The impact of age on quality measure adherence in colon cancer
Scott R Steele
Department of Surgery, Division of Colorectal Surgery, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA, USA
J Am Coll Surg 213:95-103; discussion 104-5. 2011
..It is unclear whether this measure is relevant to all ages. We hypothesized that total lymph node yield (LNY) is negatively correlated with increasing age and overall survival (OS)...
- Medullary carcinoma of the breast: a population-based perspective
Steve R Martinez
Department of Surgery, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Med Oncol 28:738-44. 2011
..The improved OS seen with increasing LNY in node-negative patients suggests MCB may be currently understaged...
- Nomogram to predict risk of 30-day morbidity and mortality for patients with disseminated malignancy undergoing surgical intervention
Warren H Tseng
Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of California at Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Ann Surg 254:333-8. 2011
..To estimate individual risk of 30-day surgical morbidity and mortality after surgical intervention for patients with disseminated malignancy (DMa)...
- Lymph node ratio as a quality and prognostic indicator in stage III colon cancer
Steven L Chen
Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Ann Surg 253:82-7. 2011
..Similarly, the number of resected/evaluated nodes impacts staging accuracy. This ratio of metastatic to examined nodes or lymph node ratio (LNR) may have independent prognostic value in colon carcinoma...
- Contiguous organ resection is safe in patients with retroperitoneal sarcoma: An ACS-NSQIP analysis
Warren H Tseng
Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, USA
J Surg Oncol 103:390-4. 2011
..We examined rates of 30-day morbidity and mortality following resection of RPS utilizing data from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) database...
- An interaction of race and ethnicity with socioeconomic status in rectal cancer outcomes
Joseph Kim
Division of Oncologic Surgery, Department of Surgery, City of Hope, Duarte, CA 91010, USA
Ann Surg 253:647-54. 2011
..Because appropriate rectal cancer care and subsequent outcomes can be influenced by several variables, our objective was to investigate how race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status (SES) may impact rectal cancer outcomes...
- Adjuvant radiation therapy is associated with improved survival for adenoid cystic carcinoma of the breast
Jodi M Coates
Department of Surgery, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, USA
J Surg Oncol 102:342-7. 2010
..The role of adjuvant radiation therapy (RT) for adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) of the breast remains unclear...
- Influence of specialty and clinical experience on treatment sequencing in the multimodal management of soft tissue extremity sarcoma
Nabil Wasif
Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 19:504-10. 2012
..Our goal was to identify factors responsible for this variation...
- Surgical resident involvement is safe for common elective general surgery procedures
Warren H Tseng
Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
J Am Coll Surg 213:19-26; discussion 26-8. 2011
..Examining 7 common general surgery procedures, we evaluated the effect of SRI on perioperative morbidity and mortality and operative time (OpT)...
- Prognostic value of lymph node yield and metastatic lymph node ratio in medullary thyroid carcinoma
Maya D Leggett
Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, UC Davis Cancer Center, University of California at Davis, 4501 X Street, Suite 3010, Sacramento, CA, 95817, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 15:2493-9. 2008
..We hypothesized that MTC survival is influenced by LNY and MLNR...
- Sacramento area breast cancer epidemiology study: use of postmastectomy breast reconstruction along the rural-to-urban continuum
Warren H Tseng
Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Plast Reconstr Surg 126:1815-24. 2010
..The authors hypothesized that breast cancer patients in urban counties would have higher rates of postmastectomy breast reconstruction relative to patients in surrounding near-metro and rural counties...
- Negligible effect of selective preoperative biliary drainage on perioperative resuscitation, morbidity, and mortality in patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy
Jodi M Coates
Division of Surgical Oncology, UC Davis Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Arch Surg 144:841-7. 2009
..Biliary drainage prior to pancreaticoduodenectomy remains controversial. Proponents argue that it facilitates referral to high-volume tertiary centers, while detractors maintain that it increases surgical morbidity and mortality...
- Benefit of postoperative adjuvant therapy for pancreatic cancer: A population-based analysis
Kimberly A Vanderveen
Department of Surgery, University of California at Davis Cancer Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Cancer 115:2420-9. 2009
..In the current study, the authors sought to identify the impact of adjuvant therapy and factors associated with any improvement in survival after resection of pancreatic cancer...
- Survival comparison of adenosquamous, squamous cell, and adenocarcinoma of the lung after lobectomy
David T Cooke
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 90:943-8. 2010
..We examined a national database to see if ASC exhibited distinct clinical behavior from squamous cell (SC) and adenocarcinoma (AC) of the lung...
- Treatment disparities in Hispanic rectal cancer patients: a SEER database study
Steve R Martinez
Division of Surgical Oncology, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, California 90404, USA
Am Surg 72:906-8. 2006
..Further studies are required to assess the impact of these treatment disparities on patient outcome...
- Complete regression of subcutaneous and cutaneous metastatic melanoma with high-dose intralesional interleukin 2 in combination with topical imiquimod and retinoid cream
Miki Shirakawa Garcia
Department of Dermatology, University of California Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95816, USA
Melanoma Res 21:235-43. 2011
..These results support intralesional high-dose IL-2 as a very effective therapy for controlling cutaneous metastatic melanoma. Additional studies are needed to determine whether this therapy is associated with a survival benefit...
- The prognostic significance of micrometastases in breast cancer: a SEER population-based analysis
Steven L Chen
Joyce Eisenberg Keefer Breast Center, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Saint John s Health Center, 2200 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 14:3378-84. 2007
..We hypothesized that the survival of patients with solely micrometastatic disease (N1mi) would be intermediate to patients with 1-3 tumor-positive lymph nodes (N1) and those with no positive lymph nodes (N0)...
- Role of repeated hepatectomy in the multimodal treatment of hepatic colorectal metastases
Aziz Ahmad
John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John s Health Center, 2200 Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
Arch Surg 142:526-31; discussion 531-2. 2007
..Multimodal treatment consisting of repeated hepatectomy and adjuvant systemic chemotherapy for liver-confined recurrence of colorectal cancer can yield long-term survival comparable with that associated with primary hepatectomy...
- More extensive nodal dissection improves survival for stages I to III of colon cancer: a population-based study
Steven L Chen
Department of Surgical Oncology, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
Ann Surg 244:602-10. 2006
..Currently, most procedures do not meet this guideline. Future trials of adjuvant therapy should include extent of lymphadenectomy as a stratification factor...
- Lymphatic mapping and sentinel node analysis: current concepts and applications
Steven L Chen
Surgical Oncology, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, CA, USA
CA Cancer J Clin 56:292-309; quiz 316-7. 2006
..Variations on techniques specific to each organ are explained, and the current role of sentinel node biopsy in diagnosis and treatment is discussed...
- Radiofrequency ablation of hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer: are newer generation probes better?
Aziz Ahmad
John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John s Health Center, Santa Monica, California 90404, USA
Am Surg 72:875-9. 2006
..Newer-generation probes are associated with lower rates of margin recurrence and higher rates of disease-free survival after RFA of hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer...
- Resecting lymph nodes in colon cancer: more than a staging operation?
Steven L Chen
Ann Surg Oncol 14:2175-6. 2007
- Prognostic impact of micrometastases in colon cancer: interim results of a prospective multicenter trial
Anton J Bilchik
Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John s Health Center, Santa Monica, CA 90404, and Michigan State University McLaren Regional Medical Center, Flint, MI, USA
Ann Surg 246:568-75; discussion 575-7. 2007
..6% rate of micrometastases (MM) identified by immunohistochemical staining (IHC) of H&E-negative SNs in CC. We hypothesized that these MM have prognostic importance...
- An academic health center cost analysis of screening mammography: creating a financially viable service
Steven L Chen
University of Michigan Center for Health Care Economics, Ann Arbor 48109, USA
Cancer 101:1043-50. 2004
..Based on favorable contribution margins, SM programs were viable when viewed as incremental business...
