1. Surgical Oncology at the Crossroads: the Future is Now

   • Raphael E. Pollock

   SSO Presidential Address Open access 03 January 2008 Pages: 661 - 669

   

2. How Should We View the Results of the Multicenter Selective Lymphadenectomy Trial-1 (MSLT-1)?

   • Merrick I. Ross
   • Jeffrey E. Gershenwald

   Melanomas Open access 29 January 2008 Pages: 670 - 673

   

3. Diminishing Disparities: Starting in Our Own Backyards

   • Joan J. Ryoo
   • Sushma Jain
   • Clifford Y. Ko

   Healthcare Policy and Outcomes Open access 19 December 2007 Pages: 674 - 676

4. Surgical Margins during Hepatic Surgery for Colorectal Liver Metastases: Complete Resection not Millimeters Defines Outcome

   • Timothy M. Pawlik
   • Jean-Nicolas Vauthey

   Gastrointestinal Oncology Open access 29 December 2007 Pages: 677 - 679

5. Is There a Place for Esogastric Cancer Surgery in Cirrhotic Patients?

   • Christophe Mariette

   Gastrointestinal Oncology Open access 03 January 2008 Pages: 680 - 682

6. The National Cancer Data Base: A Powerful Initiative to Improve Cancer Care in the United States

   • Karl Y. Bilimoria
   • Andrew K. Stewart
   • Clifford Y. Ko

   Healthcare Policy and Outcomes Open access 09 January 2008 Pages: 683 - 690

   

7. Facilitating Breast-Conserving Surgery and Preventing Recurrence: Aromatase Inhibitors in the Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Settings

   • Eleftherios P. Mamounas

   Breast Oncology 15 January 2008 Pages: 691 - 703

   

8. Positron Emission Tomography Detection of Distant Metastatic or Synchronous Disease in Patients with Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer Receiving Preoperative Chemoradiation

   • Caio S. R. Nahas
   • Timothy Akhurst
   • José G. Guillem

   Gastrointestinal Oncology 20 September 2007 Pages: 704 - 711

   

9. Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation and Local Excision for T2-3 Rectal Cancer

   • Thomas Borschitz
   • Daniel Wachtlin
   • Theodor Junginger

   Gastrointestinal Oncology 28 December 2007 Pages: 712 - 720

10. Factors Influencing Pathologic Results after Total Mesorectal Excision for Rectal Cancer: Analysis of Consecutive 100 Cases

    • Seung Hyuk Baik
    • Nam Kyu Kim
    • Rina K Shinn

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 05 December 2007 Pages: 721 - 728

    

11. Lateral Lymph Node Metastasis Is a Major Cause of Locoregional Recurrence in Rectal Cancer Treated with Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy and Curative Resection

    • Tae Hyun Kim
    • Seung-Yong Jeong
    • Jae-Gahb Park

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 05 December 2007 Pages: 729 - 737

    

12. VEGF Expression Predicts Survival in Patients with Peritoneal Surface Metastases from Mucinous Adenocarcinoma of the Appendix and Colon

    • Jocelyn M. Logan-Collins
    • Andrew M. Lowy
    • Syed A. Ahmad

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 28 November 2007 Pages: 738 - 744

    

13. Swedish Experience with Peritonectomy and HIPEC. HIPEC in Peritoneal Carcinomatosis

    • B. L. van Leeuwen
    • W. Graf
    • H. Mahteme

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 05 December 2007 Pages: 745 - 753

    

14. Aggressive Surgical Management of Peritoneal Carcinomatosis With Low Mortality in a High-Volume Tertiary Cancer Center

    • Niraj J. Gusani
    • Sung W. Cho
    • David L. Bartlett

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 12 December 2007 Pages: 754 - 763

    

15. Risk Factors for Lymph Node Metastasis in Undifferentiated Early Gastric Cancer

    • Chen Li
    • Sungsoo Kim
    • Sung Hoon Noh

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 28 November 2007 Pages: 764 - 769

    

16. Morphological Distribution of Metastatic Foci in Sentinel Lymph Nodes with Gastric Cancer

    • Shigehiro Yanagita
    • Shoji Natsugoe
    • Takashi Aikou

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 19 December 2007 Pages: 770 - 776

    

17. Comparison Between the Minimum Margin Defined on Preoperative Imaging and the Final Surgical Margin After Hepatectomy for Cancer: How to Manage It?

    • D. Elias
    • S. Bonnet
    • D. Goere

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 29 December 2007 Pages: 777 - 781

18. Incomplete Ablation After Radiofrequency Ablation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Analysis of Risk Factors and Prognostic Factors

    • Vincent Wai-To Lam
    • Kelvin K. Ng
    • Ronnie T. P. Poon

    Hepatic and Pancreatic Tumors 20 December 2007 Pages: 782 - 790

    

19. Tumor-Associated Lymphangiogenesis Correlates with Lymph Node Metastases and Prognosis in Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma

    • Armin Thelen
    • Arne Scholz
    • Sven Jonas

    Hepatic and Pancreatic Tumors 03 January 2008 Pages: 791 - 799

    

20. Laparoscopic Liver Surgery for Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma

    • Hong-Yaw Chen
    • Chung-Chou Juan
    • Chen-Guo Ker

    Hepatic and Pancreatic Tumors 29 December 2007 Pages: 800 - 806

    

21. An Aggressive Approach to Extrahepatic Cholangiocarcinomas Is Warranted: Margin Status Does Not Impact Survival after Resection

    • Jonathan Hernandez
    • Sarah M. Cowgill
    • Alexander Rosemurgy

    Hepatic and Pancreatic Tumors 08 January 2008 Pages: 807 - 814

    

22. Percutaneous Hepatic Perfusion in Patients with Metastatic Liver Cancer: Anesthetic, Hemodynamic, and Metabolic Considerations

    • Ning Miao
    • James F. Pingpank
    • Zenaide M. N. Quezado

    Hepatic and Pancreatic Tumors 08 January 2008 Pages: 815 - 823

    

23. Delayed Visceral Arterial Hemorrhage Following Whipple’s Procedure: Minimally Invasive Treatment with Covered Stents

    • Peter Heiss
    • Maike Bachthaler
    • Niels Zorger

    Hepatic and Pancreatic Tumors 12 December 2007 Pages: 824 - 832

    

24. Factors Associated with Negative Margins of Lumpectomy Specimen: Potential Use in Selecting Patients for Intraoperative Radiotherapy

    • D. E. Schiller
    • L. W. Le
    • D. R. McCready

    Breast Oncology 28 December 2007 Pages: 833 - 842

    

25. Atypical Ductal Hyperplasia at Margin of Breast Biopsy—Is Re-Excision Indicated?

    • Shalini Arora
    • Tehillah S. Menes
    • Shabnam Jaffer

    Breast Oncology 07 November 2007 Pages: 843 - 847

    

26. S-Classification of Sentinel Lymph Node Predicts Axillary Nonsentinel Lymph Node Status in Patients with Breast Cancer

    • Astrid Maria Fink
    • Harald Lass
    • Andreas Steiner

    Breast Oncology 28 November 2007 Pages: 848 - 853

27. The Influence of Age on the Breast Surgery Decision-Making Process

    • Richard J. Bleicher
    • Paul Abrahamse
    • Monica Morrow

    Breast Oncology 06 December 2007 Pages: 854 - 862

    

28. The Lymphatic Anatomy of the Breast and its Implications for Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy: A Human Cadaver Study

    • Hiroo Suami
    • Wei-Ren Pan
    • G. Ian Taylor

    Breast Oncology Open access 28 November 2007 Pages: 863 - 871

    

29. Multiple Genetic Polymorphisms of GSTP1 313AG, MDR1 3435CC, and MTHFR 677CC Highly Correlated with Early Relapse of Breast Cancer Patients in Taiwan

    • Ming-Yii Huang
    • Yi-Hui Wang
    • Shiu-Ru Lin

    Breast Oncology 19 December 2007 Pages: 872 - 880

    

30. Racial Disparities in Esophageal Cancer Treatment and Outcomes

    • Alexander J. Greenstein
    • Virginia R. Litle
    • Juan P. Wisnivesky

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 07 November 2007 Pages: 881 - 888

    

31. Expression Status of Folate Receptor α Is Significantly Correlated with Prognosis in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancers

    • Shotaro Iwakiri
    • Makoto Sonobe
    • Ryo Miyahara

    Thoracic Oncology 08 January 2008 Pages: 889 - 899

    

32. The Utility of Metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) Scintigraphy in Patients with Pheochromocytoma

    • David Yü Greenblatt
    • Yoram Shenker
    • Herbert Chen

    Endocrine Tumors 08 January 2008 Pages: 900 - 905

    

33. Tumor Necrosis Rate Adjusted by Tumor Volume Change Is a Better Predictor of Survival of Localized Osteosarcoma Patients

    • Min Suk Kim
    • Soo-Yong Lee
    • Dae-Geun Jeon

    Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas 28 December 2007 Pages: 906 - 914

34. Analysis of Risk Factors of Predictive Local Tumor Control in Oral Cavity Cancer

    • Chun-Ta Liao
    • Joseph Tung-Chieh Chang
    • Tzu-Chen Yen

    Head and Neck Oncology 29 December 2007 Pages: 915 - 922

    

35. A Novel Function of the Receptor for Advanced Glycation End-Products (RAGE) in Association with Tumorigenesis and Tumor Differentiation of HCC

    • Kiyokazu Hiwatashi
    • Shinichi Ueno
    • Takashi Aikou

    Hepatic and Pancreatic Tumors Open access 15 December 2007 Pages: 923 - 933

    

36. Confirmation of Sentinel Lymph Node Identity by Analysis of Fine-Needle Biopsy Samples Using Inductively Coupled Plasma–Mass Spectrometry

    • Alison Beavis
    • Michael Dawson
    • John F. Thompson

    Laboratory Research Open access 03 January 2008 Pages: 934 - 940

    

37. Pathological Axillary Lymph Node Status in HER-2 Receptor Positive and Negative Breast Cancers

    • Jeon Hor Chen
    • Garima Agrawal
    • Min-Ying Su

    Breast Oncology 15 November 2007 Pages: 941 - 942

38. Breast Conservation Therapy: Multiple Reexcisions or Subcutaneous and Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy?

    • E. Lykoudis
    • N. Xeropotamos
    • M. Fatouros

    Breast Oncology 05 December 2007 Pages: 943 - 944

39. Reexcisions in Breast-Conserving Surgery for Breast Cancer: Can They Be Avoided?

    • Liakakos Theodore

    Breast Oncology 05 December 2007 Pages: 945 - 946

40. In Reply

    • Martin J. O’Sullivan
    • T Li
    • M Morrow

    Breast Oncology 09 January 2008 Pages: 947 - 948

41. Reducing Local Recurrence after Breast-Conserving Surgery for Breast Cancer

    • Theodore Liakakos
    • Georgios Baltogiannis

    Letter to the Editor 07 October 2007 Pages: 949 - 950

42. Practice Pearl: a Novel Use of Transdermal Nitroglycerine To Reduce Blood Transfusion for Surgery of Metastatic Tumors of the Spine

    • Hamid Namazi

    Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas 15 November 2007 Pages: 951 - 952