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Are mastectomy rates really increasing in the United States?Elizabeth B Habermann
University of Minnesota andVeterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
J Clin Oncol 28:3437-41. 2010..We conducted a population-based study to evaluate national trends in the surgical treatment of breast cancer from 2000 through 2006...- Surgical treatment of lung cancer: predicting postoperative morbidity in the elderly populationNatasha M Rueth
Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 143:1314-23. 2012..With population data, we analyzed postoperative complications and morbidity predictors for older patients undergoing lobectomy for stage I non-small cell lung cancer... - The long-term impact of surgical complications after resection of stage I nonsmall cell lung cancer: a population-based survival analysisNatasha M Rueth
Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Ann Surg 254:368-74. 2011..Because resection of early stage nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is primary therapy, we sought to determine the survival impact of surgical complications for elderly patients undergoing resection of stage I NSCLC... - Is there a role for surgery with adequate nodal evaluation alone in gastric adenocarcinoma?Vikas Dudeja
University of Minnesota Surgical Outcomes Research Center, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Gastrointest Surg 16:238-46; discussion 246-7. 2012..We examined the impact of surgery with adequate nodal evaluation alone on gastric cancer survival... - Operative outcomes beyond 30-day mortality: colorectal cancer surgery in oldest oldWaddah B Al-Refaie
Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota and Minneapolis Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
Ann Surg 253:947-52. 2011..We hypothesize that older age will additionally impact operative morbidity after CRC resections in a multihospital, risk-adjusted database... - T1/T2 non-small-cell lung cancer treated by lobectomy: does tumor anatomic location matter?Bryan A Whitson
Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
J Surg Res 177:185-90. 2012..Current data are limited to a retrospective single-institution series. We sought to determine if tumor anatomic location (i.e., the particular lobe that was involved) confers a survival advantage based on population-based data... - What happens to racial and ethnic minorities after cancer surgery at American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program hospitals?Helen M Parsons
Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Am Coll Surg 214:539-47; discussion 547-9. 2012..We hypothesized that operative outcomes for racial and ethnic minority patients after cancer surgery at ACS NSQIP hospitals are comparable with those for white patients... - Increasing rates of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy among patients with ductal carcinoma in situTodd M Tuttle
Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA
J Clin Oncol 27:1362-7. 2009..The use and trends of CPM for DCIS in the United States have not previously been reported... - Lymph node evaluation is associated with improved survival after surgery for early stage gallbladder cancerEric H Jensen
Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Surgery 146:706-11; discussion 711-3. 2009..We sought to determine the survival benefit conferred by adequate LN evaluation... - Conditional survival of extremity soft-tissue sarcoma: results beyond the staging systemHelen M Parsons
Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
Cancer 117:1055-60. 2011..We assessed determinants of survival in adults surgically treated for nonmetastatic ESTS, conditional on specific survival periods... - Adjuvant chemotherapy for stage III colon cancer in the oldest old: results beyond clinical guidelinesAnasooya Abraham
Surgical Outcomes Research Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
Cancer 119:395-403. 2013..The generalizability of these studies to a growing elderly population remains unknown... - Rurality and cancer surgery in the United StatesAbraham Markin
Division of Surgical Oncology, the Surgical Outcomes Research Center, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota and Minneapolis VAMC, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Am J Surg 204:569-73. 2012..Rurality adversely impacts the continuum of cancer care. However, investigations of rural cancer surgery are notably absent. We examined patterns and outcomes of oncologic resections at rural US hospitals... - Survival after lobectomy versus segmentectomy for stage I non-small cell lung cancer: a population-based analysisBryan A Whitson
Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 92:1943-50. 2011..We sought to determine if lobectomy offers a survival advantage over segmentectomy for stage I NSCLC based on population-based data... - Blood transfusion and cancer surgery outcomes: a continued reason for concernWaddah B Al-Refaie
University of Minnesota and Minneapolis Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Surgery 152:344-54. 2012..We hypothesized that intraoperative blood transfusions continue to adversely impact short-term cancer surgery outcomes regardless of age or preoperative hematocrit levels... - Do hospital attributes predict guideline-recommended gastric cancer care in the United States?Vikas Dudeja
Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 19:365-72. 2012..We examined the impact of hospital attributes (volume and type) on guideline-recommended care in patients treated for gastric cancer... - Omission of radiation therapy after breast-conserving surgery in the United States: a population-based analysis of clinicopathologic factorsTodd M Tuttle
Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Cancer 118:2004-13. 2012..The authors of this report sought to determine which patients with breast cancer do not receive RT after BCS in the United States... - Who receives their complex cancer surgery at low-volume hospitals?Waddah B Al-Refaie
Minnesota Surgical Outcomes Research Center, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota and Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Am Coll Surg 214:81-7. 2012..Whether patient-related factors impact this association remains unknown. We hypothesize that patient-related factors contribute to receipt of complex cancer surgery at LVH... 
Managed care enrollment and chronically disabled women with breast cancerElizabeth B Habermann
Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware St SE, MMC 729, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Am J Manag Care 14:514-20. 2008..To assess whether managed care enrollment or healthcare utilization level among women enrolled in Medicare because of disability affects stage at diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer...- Guideline recommended gastric cancer care in the elderly: insights into the applicability of cancer trials to real worldVikas Dudeja
Department of Surgery, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 18:26-33. 2011..Given the underrepresentation of older persons in cancer trials, the association between increasing age and receipt of recommended gastric cancer care in the United States was examined... - Patient and surgeon characteristics associated with increased use of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy in patients with breast cancerAmanda K Arrington
Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 16:2697-704. 2009..The current study evaluated patients who underwent breast cancer surgery in a metropolitan-based hospital system to determine factors associated with CPM... - Does enrollment in cancer trials improve survival?Christopher J Chow
Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
J Am Coll Surg 216:774-80; discussion 780-1. 2013..However, whether enrollment in cancer trials also improves patient survival independently of trial outcomes remains underinvestigated. We hypothesized that cancer trial enrollment is not associated with patient survival outcomes... - Bariatric surgery outcomes in the elderly: an ACS NSQIP studyRobert B Dorman
The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
J Gastrointest Surg 16:35-44; discussion 44. 2012..We hypothesized that short-term operative outcomes in bariatric surgery patients ≥65 years would be comparable to younger persons... - Cancer trials versus the real world in the United StatesWaddah B Al-Refaie
Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
Ann Surg 254:438-42; discussion 442-3. 2011..We sought to identify patterns and predictors of enrollment patterns to cancer trials in a contemporary era using a real world setting... - A critical analysis of the surgical management of early-stage gallbladder cancer in the United StatesEric H Jensen
Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Minnesota Medical Center, 420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 195, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Gastrointest Surg 13:722-7. 2009..We sought to determine whether radical resection improves survival for patients with early-stage cancer and to evaluate surgeon compliance with current treatment recommendations... - Conditional survival after surgical treatment of melanoma: an analysis of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results databaseNatasha M Rueth
Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 17:1662-8. 2010..Therefore, survival estimates may be misleading for long-term cancer survivors. We examined whether conditional survival (CS) is more accurate in predicting long-term melanoma survival... - Extremity soft tissue sarcoma care in the elderly: insights into the generalizability of NCI Cancer TrialsWaddah B Al-Refaie
Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 17:1732-8. 2010..We explored the extent of older age (> or =65 years) on patterns of ESTS care in NCI-sponsored population-based dataset... - Prognosis for primary retroperitoneal sarcoma survivors: a conditional survival analysisAndrea M Abbott
Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
Cancer 118:3321-9. 2012..We hypothesized that the variables evaluated in the current staging system and post-operative nomograms would have limited ability to predict conditional survival in patients surgically treated for RPS... - Increasing use of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy for breast cancer patients: a trend toward more aggressive surgical treatmentTodd M Tuttle
University of Minnesota, Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, 420 Delaware St SE, Minneapolis, MN, USA
J Clin Oncol 25:5203-9. 2007..The purpose of our study was to determine the use and trends of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy in the United States... - Conditional cancer-specific versus cardiovascular-specific survival after lobectomy for stage I non-small cell lung cancerShawn S Groth
Division of General Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 90:375-82. 2010..There may be a point during follow-up when patients who undergo lobectomy for stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are as likely to die of cardiovascular disease as of cancer... - Trends in the use of implantable accelerated partial breast irradiation therapy for early stage breast cancer in the United StatesAndrea M Abbott
Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Cancer 117:3305-10. 2011..The objective of the current study was to determine the use of implantable APBI (IAPBI) in the United States and factors associated with IAPBI use... - The impact of a change in Medicare reimbursement policy and HEDIS measures on stage at diagnosis among Medicare HMO and fee-for-service female breast cancer patientsElizabeth B Habermann
Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Med Care 45:761-6. 2007.... 
A matter of race: early-versus late-stage cancer diagnosisBeth A Virnig
Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:160-8. 2009..These differences cannot be explained by screening behavior or risk factors; they point instead to the need for broad-based strategies to remedy racial inequality in cancer survival...- Assessment of ACS NSQIP's predictive ability for adverse events after major cancer surgeryDaniel Borja-Cacho
Department of Surgery, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 17:2274-82. 2010..However, its applicability to oncologic resections at ACS NSQIP hospitals has not been fully explored. We assessed the ability of factors currently collected by ACS NSQIP to predict adverse operative events after major cancer surgery... - Trends in the incidence of invasive and in situ vulvar carcinomaPatricia L Judson
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women s Health, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
Obstet Gynecol 107:1018-22. 2006..To characterize the incidence of vulvar carcinoma in situ and vulvar cancer over time...