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 ERS - including the industry's first podcast focused on Cancer Registry.
During the coronavirus pandemic, national guidelines recommended that elective surgery be deferred when hospital resources are limited. The impact of this delay on outcomes of patients with cancer is unknown. A recent study evaluated the effect of delay of surgery for esophageal cancer during the period 2010-2017. Using the data from the National Cancer Database, […]
The concepts of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) have appropriately become important goals for healthcare enterprises, corporate entities, professional organizations and academic institutions. It is important that these concepts are also being emphasized in professional schools, especially medical schools, where the future generations of physicians are being trained. Twenty-four medical schools throughout the nation will […]
Although node-positive solid tumor malignancies frequently mandate adjuvant chemotherapy usage, the debate regarding Stage II (node negative) colon cancer continues to be ongoing relating to this issue. Medical oncologists have a variety of differing views as to whether additional chemotherapy should be offered after colectomy. While nodal status is an important indicator that is captured […]
One of the exciting new initiatives being developed at my cancer program is the creation of a stand-alone radiation oncology center which will house a proton therapy unit. Although the concept of treating cancer with protons has been increasing over the last decade, there has been a paucity of these dedicated units throughout the United […]
Cancer is an elusive disease – one that can hide from our body’s immune defenses and even hijack those defenses for its own purposes. To battle the disease, systemic treatments have long relied on the twin cudgels of chemotherapy, to poison the cancer cells and radiation, to blast them to death. The treatments can be […]
