Considerations for Management of Gastric Adenocarcinomas

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, join us as the Women in Cancer Surgery working group shares their triumphs, challenges, and the impactful experiences that have shaped their journeys in cancer surgery. Moderated by Sarah McLaughlin, MD, FSSO, and featuring Margo Shoup, MD, MBA, FSSO, Nathalie Johnson, MD, and Julie Ann Sosa, MD, MA, FACS, FSSO, explore the unwavering commitment and inspiring stories behind these exceptional women.

ALT/WDLPS are fatty tumors most commonly occurring in the extremity and retroperitoneum that have a relatively indolent behavior, but a strong predilection for local recurrence. In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Episode 2 of this series on ALT/WDLPS, Brian Kadera, MD, John Mullinax, MD, Giorgos Karakousis, MD, and Steven Thorpe, MD, will focus on local management, surgical approaches, and the risks/benefits of radiation in the neoadjuvant/adjuvant setting. We will highlight differences in the natural history of this tumor when it occurs in the extremity versus the retroperitoneum, and touch briefly on the management of local well-differentiated recurrences.

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Tina Hieken, MD, from the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota, interviews Jay Lee, MD, MHSc, from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and Julia Terhune, MD, from the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland. They will discuss the current and evolving indications for adjuvant therapy in patients with stage III melanoma including vaccine trials.

Lymph node dissection is a crucial component of the surgical treatment of gastric cancer. The technical aspects of lymph node dissection, especially D2, require a significant degree of training and expertise. In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Ahmed Dehal, MD, MPH, interviews Vivian Strong, MD, from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Yanghee Woo, MD, from City of Hope to discuss this topic.

In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Associate Professor Gabrielle van Ramshorst MD, PhD, and Dr. Patrick Sullivan, MD, moderate a discussion with two top experts in the field of pelvic exenteration surgery, Dr. Brian Bednardski, MD, and Professor Michael Solomon, MD, PhD, on their experience in this complex type of surgery. The discussion covers the definition of pelvic exenteration, the organization of care, training in pelvic exenteration surgery, and recent developments in this field.

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Brian E. Kadera, MD, Ben Hinrichs, MD, and Konstantinos Chouliaras, MD, focus on the diagnosis and work-up of fatty tumors in the extremity and the retroperitoneum. They highlight the imaging features, the utility of biopsy and specifically, MDM2 fluorescence in-situ hybridization. They also review the pitfalls of gross and microscopic margin assessment.

In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Julie Hallet, MD, MSc, Vice-Chair of the SSO HPB disease site working group, and Lavanya Yohanathan, MD, from the HPB disease site working group are joined by Melissa Hogg, MD, from Northshore University Hospital and Giovanni Marchegiani, MD, from the University of Padova. They will discuss two key clinical scenarios during surveillance of pancreatic cystic neoplasms: when to pull the trigger on resection and if or when to discontinue surveillance.

Show notes: 
- Next generation sequencing of pancreatic cyst fluid: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36209796/
- Discontinuation of surveillance for selected IPMNs: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37406887/
- iCyst app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/icyst/id1479833485 

In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Alexander Parikh MD, MPH, FACS, FSSO, will continue the discussion on the nuts and bolts of neoadjuvant therapy for pancreas cancer with Syed Ahmad, MD, and Susan Tsai, MD, MHS. In part 2, they specifically discuss two important aspects of delivering neoadjuvant therapy for pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Specifically, how to choose which specific regimens to use and the role of chemoradiation. 

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Genevieve Boland, MD, PhD, Amanda Kirane, MD, and G. Paul Wright, MD, discuss breaking news and updates from the Society of Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) and Society of Melanoma Research (SMR) meetings.

In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, Puneet Singh, MD, and Anna Weiss, MD, discuss the newly published SOUND and LUMINA clinical trials. Both trials explore local regional de-escalation, omitting sentinel lymph node biopsy and radiation, respectively. They discuss the treatment challenges that incorporating these trial results may pose with their special guest, Kimberly Corbin, MD.