Society of Surgical Oncology 66th Annual Cancer Symposium

Abstract

The proceedings contain 412 papers. The topics discussed include: cytoreduction and HIPEC for peritoneal disease from colorectal carcinoma in the Netherlands: long-term outcome of procedures performed under a standardized protocol; the 21-gene recurrence score (RS) predicts risk of loco-regional recurrence (LRR) in node (+), ER (+) breast cancer (BC) after adjuvant chemotherapy and tamoxifen: results from NSABP B-28; how often is axillary dissection avoided when Z11 eligibility criteria are applied in routine practice: results from a prospective series of consecutively treated patients; invasive carcinoma in intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms of the pancreas can be predicted with a nomogram; factors affecting sentinel lymph node identification rate after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer patients enrolled in ACOSOG Z1071; and incidence and consequence of close margins for ductal carcinoma in situ treated with mastectomy.