Surgery

Bhuvanesh Singh, MD, has big plans for enhancing the skin cancer program at Northwell Health.

Use of TumorSight Viz may support improved consistency, precision, and efficiency in breast cancer surgery.

Counseling received prior to colorectal surgery using 3-dimensional–printed anatomic models reduced mean anxiety scores vs conventional counseling.

The DREAM program led by Ankit Bharat, MD, MBBS, FACS, allowed Cornelia Tischmacher to receive a double lung transplant for her stage IV lung cancer.

Data from the INCITE-ES study show 100% technical success with pulsed electric field energy delivery before surgical resection.

Jennifer Moliterno, MD, FAANS, highlights post-operative complications that may arise after neurosurgery.

Jennifer Moliterno, MD, FAANS, discusses current neurosurgical strategies for maximizing safe resection in newly diagnosed high-grade gliomas.

Jennifer Moliterno, MD, FAANS, discusses current neurosurgical strategies for newly diagnosed high-grade gliomas.

A new type of robotic posterior surgery has been shown to be a treatment option for patients with devastated bladder outlets.

Utilizing a multidisciplinary breast cancer clinic helped improve time to first appointment and time to first treatment.

IBTR with the 1 mm and 2 mm cutoff found rates found the margin widths were small and not clinically meaningful.

Ninety days of endocrine therapy before surgery could change patient/surgeon preference on concurrent radiation use in those with breast cancer.

Data show that patients who undergo grade group 1 prostatectomies may experience an increased likelihood of higher risk features.

Findings may establish a framework for assisting patient counselling and optimizing therapy selection for those undergoing radical cystectomy.

Robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomies with anastomotic technique were completed without complications or mortality in a majority of patients.

Spatial transcriptomics and multiplex immunohistochemistry from samples may elucidate outcomes for patients who undergo surgical care for cancer.

The developer will conduct a US feasibility test to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the SIRA RFA Electrosurgical Device in patients who require breast-conservation surgery.

The Integrated Palliative Care Outcome Scale showed the potential to guide palliative care integration to better help patients and clinicians after AHSCT.

Future work may focus on optimizing symptom management associated with percutaneous transesophageal gastrostomy placement in malignant bowel obstructions.

Postoperative length of stay ranged from 4 to 9 days for patients who underwent percutaneous transesophageal gastrostomy for malignant bowel obstructions.

A lack of guidelines, a loss of follow-up, and out-of-state procedures are all potential reasons for 26% of patients undergoing appendectomy.

Postoperative complications and mortality after standard or postponed surgery for esophageal cancer after active surveillance were similar in both groups.

The staged approach to colectomy offers survival benefits, and it may help avoid unnecessary procedures that only require appendectomy.

“We did not find any benefit for any of the subgroups in our paper and our study,” Muhammad Talha Waheed, MD, stated.

Adding HIPEC to CRS did not show any added benefit but has shown increased toxicities in patients with colorectal peritoneal metastasis.