INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Regional cancer therapies are treatments that direct a therapeutic intervention to a cancer burdened organ or region of the body; they have the collective advantage of…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Cancer is a complex disease capable of manifesting itself as many different disease phenotypes occurring in virtually any tissue of the body. This complexity can be…
“EPIGENETICS”: ORIGIN OF THE WORD Print Section Listen Conrad Hal Waddington is usually credited with modifying the Greek word “epigenesis,” which described a theory of development, into a new term…
EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION THERAPY Print Section Listen Radiation Oncology is the medical discipline that uses ionizing radiation with therapeutic intent in the management of cancer and selected benign disease. Compared…
BACKGROUND Print Section Listen Chemotherapy has been the mainstay of systemic treatment of cancer for nearly 75 years. Chemotherapy can be broadly classified as either cytotoxic (killing rapidly dividing cells)…
BACKGROUND Print Section Listen Harm from medical mistakes can be catastrophic to the patient, and can also damage the reputation of a surgeon and institution. Today, patients, payers, and clinicians…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen In 2013, an estimated 1.7 million people in the United States will be newly diagnosed with cancer.1 With advances in multidisciplinary care, there has been a…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen On March 22, 2011, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) unanimously approved the application for a certificate in Complex General Surgical Oncology.1–3 Until then there…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Whether considering the practice of bloodletting or the concept of balancing of the four humors, the practice of medicine dates back centuries to the time of…
