SSO is excited to announce a new podcast program, SurgOnc Today. This new podcast program launched with a series of episodes focused on cancer care during COVID-19. SurgOnc Today presents conversations with the leading voices in surgical oncology discussing standards of care, debating emerging treatment options and examining unique cases.
Case Discussions Based on The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium® SSO Educational Session
SurgOnc Today presents two new episodes based upon SSO’s educational session at the 2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium®. These case-based discussions focus on preoperative systemic therapy including neoadjuvant treatment and endocrine therapy, the use of genomic testing, micrometasteses and axillary surgery.
Episode One: The Choice of Neoadjuvant Therapy for Hormone Receptor Positive Breast Cancer, with Tari A. King, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Boston, MA and Otto Metzger, MD Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Episode Two: Axillary Management After Neoadjuvant Therapy in Hormone Receptor Positive Breast Cancer, with Tari A. King, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Boston, MA and Melissa L. Pilewskie, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.
Both podcasts are moderated by SSO Past President, Armando E. Giuliano, MD, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles, CA.
Best of SSO: Practice Changing Studies in GI Surgical Oncology 2019
In this episode of SurgOnc Today,
Ajay Maker, MD, Director of Surgical Oncology at AIMMC/Creticos Cancer Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, interviews experts in the field of gastrointestinal cancer and members of the SSO Gastrointestinal Disease Site Work Group about the most influential papers in GI surgical oncology from 2019. Four conversations cover topics including:
- A recent Lancet study about combination chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer
- Advanced gastric cancer and perioperative chemotherapy regimens
- New therapies for metastatic gastric cancer
- An Annals of Surgical Oncology paper about diagnosing GI cancers from circulating tumor DNA