SSO News

SSO and ASBrS Appoint Members to the 2025 Breast Surgical Oncology Fellowship Training Committee

New SSO Consensus Statement on GEP Testing

The Society of Surgical Oncology Remembers Legend and Past President, Edward Meadors Copeland, III, MD

Insights from SSO Immediate Past President, Kelly K. Hunt, MD, FSSO

Honoring the Legacy of an Inspirational Leader: Blake Cady, MD

Global Forum of Cancer Surgeons Names Chandrakanth Are, MBBS, MBA, as CEO

SSO Statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s Ruling on Affirmative Action

SSO Announces New Open Access Journal – Surgical Oncology Insight

Shishir K. Maithel, MD, FACS, FSSO, Appointed Editor-In-Chief of Surgical Oncology Insight

SSO 2023 Press Coverage: Detection of circulating tumor DNA predicts recurrence in soft tissue sarcomas

SSO 2023 Press Coverage: Neoadjuvant pembrolizumab in stage II–III desmoplastic melanoma (SWOG S1512)

Apply for an SSO Award to the ASCO/AACR Methods in Clinical Cancer Research

SSO Has Begun a Search to Identify an Editor in Chief For a New Open Access Journal

Carlos HF Chan, MD, PhD, Receives 2022 SSO Clinical Investigator Award

Georgios Karagkounis, MD receives 2022 SSO Topic-Specific Young Investigators Award

Emily Z. Keung, MD, AM, FACS receives 2022 SSO Young Investigator Award

SSO Statement on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization

SSO Announces New Chief Executive Officer

SSO 2022 Press Release – Preliminary Results of a Phase ib/2 Window of Opportunity Clinical Trial (NCT04454528) Assessing the Effects of Preoperative (preop) Pembrolizumab +/- radiation in Early-stage Breast Cancer (eBC)

SSO 2022 Press Release – Disparate Survival for Colorectal Cancer in Rural vs Urban Populations Is Not Explained by Lack of Receipt of Guideline-concordant Therapy

SSO 2022 Press Release – Disparities in Care Access to Liver-directed Therapy Among Medicare Beneficiaries with Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastasis

SSO 2022 Press Release – The Hidden Costs of Medicare Advantage: Association with Limited Access to High-volume Complex Cancer Surgery and Detriment in Long-term Survival

SSO 2022 Press Release – Differences in Experiences with Cancer Survivorship Follow-up Among Cancer Survivors in Canada Based on Physician Specialty

SSO 2022 Press Release – How Much Pain Will I Have After Surgery? A Preoperative Nomogram to Predict Moderate-severe Pain Following Mastectomy

SSO 2022 Press Release – Predicting Regional Lymph Node Recurrence in the Modern Age of Tumor-positive Sentinel Node Melanoma: The Role of the First Post-operative Ultrasound

SSO 2022 Press Release – Single-cell RNA Sequencing Reveals Differential Tumor Cell Response to Imatinib in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor

SSO 2022 Press Release – Stage Migration as a Consequence of Omitting Completion Lymph Node Dissection for Melanoma

SSO 2022 Press Release – The Clinical Impact of Intraoperative Margin Assessment in Breast Cancer Surgery

SSO 2022 Press Release – Nodal Positivity in Early-Stage Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC): Implications for Preoperative Immunotherapy

SSO 2022 Press Release – Patterns of Differential Gene Expression May Provide Potential Biomarkers for Anal Cancer Progression

SSO 2022 Press Release – Dynamics of Circulating Tumor DNA After Resection of Colorectal Cancer: GALAXY Study in Circulate-Japan

SSO 2022 Press Release – Modulating the Gut Microbiome Stimulates Anti-Tumor Immunity in Cigarette Smoking-driven Cancer Progression

SSO 2022 Press Release – Recurrence-free Survival versus Overall Survival as a Primary End Point for Resectable Colorectal Liver Metastasis Studies: Analysis of 2,983 Curative-intent Hepatectomies

SSO 2022 Press Release – Combined Impact of Race, Neighborhood, and Dual Eligibility with Mortality After Cancer Surgery Among Medicare Beneficiaries

New Award Opportunity for SSO 2022 Attendee

SSO 2021 Clinical Investigator Award Recipient – Christina L. Roland, MD, MS

Jashodeep Datta, MD Receives 2021 SSO Young Investigator Award

Chuwuemeka Ihemelandu, MD Receives SSO 2021 Clinical Investigator Award for Under-Represented (Black Indigenous People of Color/BIPOC) Surgeons Award

The Society of Surgical Oncology Announces New President and Executive Council Officers

SSO Website Wins ASAE 2020 Gold Circle Award – April 2020

SSO Joins More than 125 Scientific Organizations and Cancer Centers Urging Priority Access to COVID-19 Vaccines for Cancer Patients and Survivors

Management of Hereditary Breast Cancer: ASCO, ASTRO and SSO Guideline – April 2020

SSO’s Website Wins W3 Award – October 2019

SSO-ASTRO 2014 Consensus Guideline on Margins for Breast-Conserving Surgery Correlate to a Significant Decrease in Surgery After Initial Lumpectomy – June 2018

SSO and ESSO Collaborate to Expand Global Curriculum – January 2018

Melanoma Clinical Practice Guideline Update – January 2018

Major Report Sets Out How to Accelerate Cancer Research and Care – November 2017

New Editor-in-Chief for Annals of Surgical Oncology Announced – October 2017