Imaging in Oncology

This issue of the Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America deals with imaging technology in cancer care. The guest editor is Vijay P. Khatri, MBChB, FACS, MBA, Professor of Surgery, from the University of California Davis School of Medicine. Dr Khatri manages a variety of cancers, with clinical interests in rectal carcinoma and primary/metastatic liver cancers. He also has experience in the management of extremity soft tissue sarcomas. Dr Khatri’s research is geared toward the implementation of clinical research and conducting clinical trials.

This issue of the Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America runs the gamut of imaging from adrenal gland tumors, thoracic cavity tumors, soft tissue tumors, head and neck tumors, to imaging of pancreatic neoplasms, among others. The article entitled, “Diagnostic Imaging of Hepatic Lesions in Adults,” by Dr Khatri and his colleagues is especially interesting and informative. Dr Khatri is also an author on the article entitled, “Emerging Modalities in Breast Cancer Imaging,” with his colleague Dr Shakeri.

The last issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America devoted to cancer imaging was guest edited by Scott Kurtzman, MD, from the Department of Surgery at Waterbury Hospital and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, in April 2007. That edition dealt with preoperative and postoperative cancer imaging and hence it was long overdue to update imaging status in cancer care to the present day. I’d like to thank Dr Khatri and his colleagues for this edition of the Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America and hope that readers will share this information with all of their trainees in surgery.

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