In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Dr. Sinziana Dumitra discusses the evaluation and management of patients with peritoneal metastases from MSI-high colorectal cancer with Dr. Joshua Leinwand and Dr. Zachary Brown, including the role of HIPEC, immunotherapy, and differences in clinical characteristics and outcomes compared with microsatellite-stable disease.

Speaking of SurgOnc has a new home! New episodes can now be found under the Society of Surgical Oncology's podcast, SurgOnc Today®, available on all major podcast platforms. Subscribe today to receive updates on new episode releases. In this new episode of the ASO Episode Series of SurgOnc Today® (previously Speaking of SurgOnc), Dr. Rick Greene discusses with Dr. Michael Offin the clinicopathologic characteristics and outcomes of a large prospective cohort of well-differentiated papillary peritoneal mesothelial tumors, as reported in their article, "Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients with Well-Differentiated Papillary Peritoneal Mesothelial Tumors."

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Steve Kwon, MD, and Mike Mavros, MD, are joined by Joo Ha Hwang, MD, and Yanghee Woo, MD, for a discussion of managing patients at high-risk of gastric cancer development at the population-level and at the patient-level. The panel will also discuss nonoperative and operative strategies in managing precancerous gastric lesions and early gastric cancers.

In this SurgOnc Today® SOI Article Series episode, Dr. Shishir Maithel, Editor of Surgical Oncology Insight, discusses with Dr. Heather Wachtel and Dr. Sara Ginzberg rates of guideline-concordant postoperative radioactive iodine therapy in patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancer across six constituent hospitals, before and after the release of the 2015 American Thyroid Association guidelines, as reported in their article, "Implementation of the 2015 American Thyroid Association Guideline Changes Across a Health System: A Quality Improvement Opportunity."

This education episode of SurgOnc Today® features a roundtable discussion with input from surgical oncologists and a surgical oncology APPs on exploring the different ways APPs can contribute to a surgical oncology practice, both in the inpatient and outpatient settings.

In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Dr. Julie Hallet and Dr. Patricio Polanco, Chair and Vice-Chair of the HPB disease site, are joined by Drs. Ryan Ellis from Indiana University Scholl of Medicine and Allison Martin from Duke University. They will wrap the 2024 HPB year with us by reviewing the top HPB surgical oncology published this year.

References/Resources:

#5 NETTER-2

#4 NEOLUPANET

#3 TRANSMET

#2 PANDORINA

#1 NORPACT

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Dr. Julie Hallet, Chair of the HPB Disease Site Work Group, and Dr. Patricio Polanco, Vice-Chair of the HPB Disease Site Work Group, are joined by Drs. Sajid Khan from Yale School of Medicine and Dr. Cecilia Ethun from UT Southwestern. They will wrap the 2024 HPB year by reviewing the top HPB surgical oncology published this year. 

References/Resources:

#10: AMPLIFY https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02760-3  

#9: Adjuvant therapy for IPMN-derived PDAC - https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.23.02313  

#8: HELIX https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2822555 

#7: CAMINO  https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(23)00572-7/fulltext 

#5 : PANDAS/PRODIGE https://www.annalsofoncology.org/article/S0923-7534(24)03884-5/fulltext

Speaking of SurgOnc has a new home! New episodes can now be found under the Society of Surgical Oncology's podcast, SurgOnc Today, available on all major podcast platforms. Subscribe today to receive updates on new episode releases.  In this new episode of Speaking of SurgOnc, Dr. Rick Greene discusses with Dr. Michael Bouvet and Dr. Kristin Cox the applicability of M5A-IR800 to target human gastric cancer, as reported in their article, "Targeting Patient-Derived Orthotopic Gastric Cancers with a Fluorescent Humanized Anti-CEA Antibody."

In this SSO Education Series episode of SurgOnc Today®, Dr. Seth Concors, an Assistant Professor of Surgical Oncology at Emory University interviews Dr. Aatur Singhi, an Associate Professor in the Divisions of Anatomic Pathology and Molecular Genomic Pathology, Director and Coordinator of Anatomic Pathology Research and Director of the UPMC Developmental Laboratory, who reviews the fundamentals of appendiceal pathology – reviewing recent changes relevant for clinical management.

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®'s Surgical Oncology Insight series, Dr. Shishir Maithel, Editor of Surgical Oncology Insight, discusses with Dr. Rita Mukhtar contemporary neoadjuvant therapy approaches to the treatment of breast cancer, with a focus on the interplay between imaging, systemic therapy, radiotherapy, and surgical management, as reported in her article, "The Neoadjuvant Approach to Treatment of Breast Cancer: Multidisciplinary Management to Improve Outcomes."

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Dr. Cord Sturgeon and Dr. Mahsa Javid are joined by Dr. Eduardo Guzmán Huerta, Dr. Juan Pablo Pantoja, and Professor Brian Lang to discuss factors affecting management of thyroid cancer with this group of experts who have a wealth of experience in different parts of the globe. Considerations affecting decision making and treatment options, adjuvant testing, adjuncts to surgery, overall costs and the system factors that need to be taken into account in the treatment and follow up of patients with thyroid cancer are explored. The discussed contributes towards advancing our understanding of worldwide processes and challenges in the management of thyroid cancer.