The effects of hormone replacement therapy on postmenopausal breast cancer biology and survivalStephen F Sener
Department of Surgery and the Center on Outcomes Research and Education, NorthShore University Health System, Evanston, and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
Am J Surg 197:403-7. 2009
..The goal of this study was to compare the characteristics of breast cancers and survival rates in HRT users versus nonusers...
Survival rates for breast cancers detected in a community service screening mammogram programStephen F Sener
Department of Surgery, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
Am J Surg 191:406-9. 2006
..This single-institution long-term prospective study was performed in the setting of community service screening mammography to evaluate the association between the methods of breast cancer detection and survival rates...
- Sentinel node biopsy alone for node-positive breast cancer: 12-year experience at a single institution
Lisa Spiguel
Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60201, USA
J Am Coll Surg 213:122-8; discussion 128-9. 2011
..Complete node dissection for a tumor-positive sentinel node (SN) is becoming more controversial. We report our institution's 12-year experience with sentinel node biopsy (SNB) alone for a tumor-positive SN...
- Axillary recurrence after sentinel node biopsy
Jacqueline Sara Jeruss
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 303 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 12:34-40. 2005
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- Treatment trends and factors associated with survival in T1aN0 and T1bN0 breast cancer patients
Timothy Kennedy
Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 14:2918-27. 2007
..Our objectives were to evaluate trends in the surgical management and adjuvant therapy for early-stage breast cancer and to identify factors predicting survival...
- Failure of sentinel lymph node mapping in patients with breast cancer
Stephen F Sener
Department of Surgery, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, 2650 Ridge, Burch #106, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
J Am Coll Surg 198:732-6. 2004
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- Effect of hospital volume on margin status after pancreaticoduodenectomy for cancer
Karl Y Bilimoria
Cancer Programs, American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
J Am Coll Surg 207:510-9. 2008
..Our objective was to evaluate the effect of hospital pancreatectomy volume on margin status...
- I-123-guided excision of metastatic papillary thyroid cancer
Saurabh Khandelwal
Department of Surgery, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois 60201, USA
J Surg Oncol 96:173-5. 2007
..The technique raises the issue of whether nonpalpable regional node recurrences should be locally excised, removed in a formal modified neck dissection, or treated with therapeutic doses of I-131...
Assessment of pancreatic cancer care in the United States based on formally developed quality indicatorsKarl Y Bilimoria
Cancer Programs, American College of Surgeons, 633 N St Clair St, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 101:848-59. 2009
..However, valid quality indicators are not currently available for pancreatic cancer management, and a composite assessment of the quality of pancreatic cancer care in the United States has not been done...
- Psychological impact of recall in high-risk breast MRI screening
Suzanne M O'Neill
Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 115:365-71. 2009
..To address the widespread concern that false-positive results during breast MRI screening may have adverse psychological effects...
- Coil embolization of a lumbar artery to control vascular injury during intradiscal surgery
Eldin E Karaikovic
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, North Shore University Health Systems, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 35:E163-6. 2010
..Case study...
- Upstaging of atypical ductal hyperplasia after vacuum-assisted 11-gauge stereotactic core needle biopsy
David J Winchester
Department of Surgery, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, Ill 60201, USA
Arch Surg 138:619-22; discussion 622-3. 2003
..The objective of this study was to determine the correlation of the 11-gauge vacuum-assisted core needle biopsy to open biopsy when a diagnosis of ADH is obtained...
