Cancer Treatment and Disparities

Rural-Urban Disparities in Thyroid Cancer Incidence and Survival

This is a study where we show national incidence of thyroid cancer is higher for urban populations, likely related to overdiagnosis, a...

Rural Cancer Care | ASCO Daily News

This is a piece from ASCO Daily News that Dr. Whitney Zahnd and I worked on highlighting cancer disparities in rural America. Improving...

Prognostication and Communication in Oncology

It is exceedingly difficult to make predictions, particularly about the future." —Neils Bohr Journal of Oncology Practice -...

Oligometastasis!

This is a nice piece that summarizes a recent publication in Nature Communications examining a whole lot of liver mets and creating a...

Hope

Hope is a funny thing that changes strategically. We may not always hope to be an astronaut or a marine biologist, but we can hope with...

Breast Cancer Boot Camp, or Why do Clinical Trials Take So Much Effort?

This is a post in Academic Surgeon that I wrote while I was taking a pragmatic clinical trials class at Harvard. I was talking to my...

Timing of Therapies for Patients with Resectable Hepatic Colorectal Metastases

In this month's ASCO connection, I introduce the concept of oligometastasis, which is a state of limited spread of a cancer that could...

HIPEC - Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy

Here are two recent articles that discuss hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy with cytoreduction (HIPEC) as an innovative new...

Neoadjuvant Therapy for Resectable Pancreatic Cancer

Pancreas cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death, but estimated to become in the top three within a few years. Results are...

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