Dr. Frederick Greene, our Consulting 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.
Breast augmentation implants associated with development of anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL) have been increasingly reported over the last several years. The first case of BIA-ALCL was reported in 1997. The link between breast implants and ALCL became stronger more recently when six cases of ALCL involved the breast and three of these occurred in women […]
When I trained as a surgeon in the 1970’s, almost all patients went to the operating room for a breast lump to make a diagnosis of cancer or benign disease, breast cancer was treated by radical mastectomy and neoadjuvant treatment was a distant thought! Essentially all diagnostic biopsies were surgical until image-guided stereotactic needle biopsy […]
Since a variety of cancers occur in women during pregnancy, will the in utero exposure to maternal cancer and cancer treatment influence the unborn child's short- and long-term health and development? A recent study in Denmark investigated outcomes in children exposed to maternal cancer in utero between January 1978 and December 2018. Exposure was defined […]
For many decades, the association of prolonged stress and cancer has been known. This has been described in civilians who are affected by the prolonged stress of war, such as those living in wartime Britain during the London blitz in 1940-41 and, more recently, the unfortunate people living in Ukraine. Recent studies have also shown […]
One of the very “high tech” surgical procedures introduced over the last several decades, but gaining more importance in the last few years is Cytoreductive Surgery with the addition of Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (CRS-HIPEC). This approach has been used for treating intraperitoneal metastases resulting from ovarian, gastrointestinal and a variety of less common cancers. The […]
