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Racial differences and disparities in cancer care and outcomes: where's the rub?Nestor F Esnaola
Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, 25 Courtenay Drive, Suite 7018, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Surg Oncol Clin N Am 21:417-37, viii. 2012..Research strategies to elucidate the relative influence of these various factors and policy recommendations to reduce persistent disparities are also discussed...
Perioperative normothermia during major surgery: is it important?Nestor F Esnaola
Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, 25 Courtenay Drive Suite 7018, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Adv Surg 45:249-63. 2011..v. fluids helps reduce the potential for fluid-induced hypothermia and, in turn, optimizes rates of perioperative normothermia...- Underuse of surgical resection in black patients with nonmetastatic colorectal cancer: location, location, locationNestor F Esnaola
Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Ann Surg 250:549-57. 2009..Our objective was to determine the independent, adverse effect of race on surgical resection, controlling for tumor location, comorbidity, and socioeconomic/insurance status... - Race and surgical outcomes: it is not all black and whiteNestor F Esnaola
Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Ann Surg 248:647-55. 2008..We hypothesized that the apparent adverse effect of race on surgical outcomes is due to confounding by comorbidity, not race itself... - Age-, race-, and ethnicity-related differences in the treatment of nonmetastatic rectal cancer: a patterns of care study from the national cancer data baseNestor F Esnaola
Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, 25 Courtenay Drive, Suite 7018, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 15:3036-47. 2008..We analyzed the independent effect of age and race/ethnicity on treatment for rectal cancer controlling for comorbidity and socioeconomic status using a nationwide sample.. - Underuse of surgical resection for localized, non-small cell lung cancer among whites and African Americans in South CarolinaNestor F Esnaola
Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 86:220-6; discussion 227. 2008..We analyzed the independent effect of race on use of surgical resection in a recent, population-based sample of patients with localized non-small cell lung cancer, controlling for comorbidity and socioeconomic status... - Urban/rural residence moderates effect of race on receipt of surgery in patients with nonmetastatic breast cancer: a report from the South Carolina central cancer registryN F Esnaola
Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina MUSC, 25 Courtenay Drive Suite 7018 MSC 295, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 15:1828-36. 2008..Previous studies have reported underuse of adjuvant therapy among African Americans (AA). This study explores the independent effect of race on surgical resection in a recent, population-based sample of breast cancer patients... - Predictors of microvascular invasion in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who are candidates for orthotopic liver transplantationNestor F Esnaola
Department of Surgery, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030-4009, USA
J Gastrointest Surg 6:224-32; discussion 232. 2002..3; 95% CI, 2.0 to 19.9). Tumor size and grade are strong predictors of microvascular invasion. A tumor biopsy with pathologic grading at the time of pretransplantation ablative therapy could improve selection of patients with HCC for OLT... - Outcomes and cost-effectiveness of alternative staging strategies for non-small-cell lung cancerNestor F Esnaola
Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
J Clin Oncol 20:263-73. 2002..To identify the optimal strategy for staging the mediastinum of patients with known non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), stratified by tumor (T) classification... - Pain and quality of life after treatment in patients with locally recurrent rectal cancerNestor F Esnaola
Department of Surgery, Pain Research Group, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030 4009, USA
J Clin Oncol 20:4361-7. 2002..The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of posttreatment pain and QOL of patients with LRRC treated with nonsurgical palliation or resection and identify predictors of poor outcome... - Surgical treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma: similar long-term results despite geographic variationsTimothy M Pawlik
Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Liver Transpl 10:S74-80. 2004..Uniform criteria that account for these clinicopathologic differences need to be developed to assist in stratifying patients across hepatobiliary centers... 
Comparison of clinicopathologic characteristics and outcomes after resection in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma treated in the United States, France, and JapanNestor F Esnaola
Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Ann Surg 238:711-9. 2003..Future studies should account for histopathologic differences using uniform criteria to allow better comparison of results...- Simplified staging for hepatocellular carcinomaJean Nicolas Vauthey
International Cooperative Study Group on Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, 77030, USA
J Clin Oncol 20:1527-36. 2002..The current American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) fails to stratify patients adequately with respect to prognosis...