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.
The Benefits of a "Complete Response" For many cancer sites, the use of neoadjuvant radiation and/or chemotherapy is becoming a standard strategy. One of the greatest benefits is the opportunity to achieve a complete clinical or pathological response prior to surgical resection. In the management of pancreatic adenocarcinoma, achieving a pathologic complete response was associated […]
The De-escalation of Breast Cancer Therapy One of the great challenges in modern cancer management is to limit or discontinue traditional therapies that have not proven beneficial in certain populations of patients. Adjuvant radiotherapy is prescribed after breast-conserving surgery to reduce the risk of local recurrence. However, radiotherapy is inconvenient, costly, and associated with both […]
Male Breast Cancer Despite the overwhelming number of breast cancer cases in women, the importance of male breast cancer collected by our cancer registries remains an important topic. One important question would be: What is the breast cancer–specific mortality (BCSM) risk over 20 years in men with stage I to III hormone receptor–positive breast cancer? In […]
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 […]
