Dr. Frederick Greene, our Chief Medical Officer has leveraged his extensive surgical experience and his ongoing editorial experiences with the AJCC and CoC to drive several initiatives for CRStar - including the industry's first podcast focused on Cancer Registry.
Is Contralateral Mastectomy Effective? Does bilateral mastectomy for treatment of unilateral breast cancer reduce the 20-year risk of breast cancer mortality? A recent study has tried to answer this question. The study included 661,270 women (about half the population of Hawaii) with unilateral stage 0-III breast cancer who were closely matched by treatment type (lumpectomy, unilateral […]
The Importance of Modifiable Risk Factors in Cancer Prevention A recent study led by researchers at the American Cancer Society found that four in 10 cancer cases and about half of all cancer deaths in adults aged 30 and older in the United States may be attributed to modifiable risk factors, including cigarette smoking, excess […]
The Importance of Second Cancers The importance of “sequence” and documentation of subsequent cancer continues to be an important aspect of cancer registry abstraction. A study from researchers at the University of Cambridge in England highlights this issue and reports that patients with breast cancer are more likely to develop a second cancer in their […]
Pregnancy After BRCA-Associated Breast Cancer Among women carrying germline BRCA pathogenic variants, is pregnancy after breast cancer associated with adverse maternal or fetal outcomes? Young women with breast cancer who have germline pathogenic variants in BRCA1 or BRCA2 face unique challenges regarding fertility. Previous studies demonstrating the feasibility and safety of pregnancy in breast cancer survivors included limited data regarding BRCA carriers. An […]
Proton Therapy and the Cancer Registry Soon, we will be opening a Proton Therapy Treatment Center at my cancer institute. Rather than using a conventional photon beam, the proton treatment has gained favor in its ability to be extremely focused on a specific tumor, while protecting surrounding non-cancerous tissue from radiation injury. Since the first […]
