1. Secondary Analyses of Large Population-Based Data Sets: Issues of Quality, Standards, and Understanding

   • Clifford Y. Ko
   • Janak Parikh
   • David Zingmond

   Healthcare Policy and Outcomes Open access 11 December 2007 Pages: 395 - 396

2. Editorial: Complications of Neck Dissection for Thyroid Cancer

   • Ashok R. Shaha

   Head and Neck Oncology Open access 06 December 2007 Pages: 397 - 399

3. A Career in Surgical Oncology: Finding Meaning, Balance, and Personal Satisfaction

   • Tait Shanafelt

   Healthcare Policy and Outcomes Open access 12 December 2007 Pages: 400 - 406

   

4. Origin of Cancer Stem Cells: The Role of Self-Renewal and Differentiation

   • Xiong-Zhi Wu

   Melanomas 28 November 2007 Pages: 407 - 414

   

5. Limitations of Claims and Registry Data in Surgical Oncology Research

   • Hari Nathan
   • Timothy M. Pawlik

   Other 07 November 2007 Pages: 415 - 423

   

6. Prospective Identification of Chyle Leakage in Patients Undergoing Lateral Neck Dissection for Metastatic Thyroid Cancer

   • Jong-Lyel Roh
   • Dong Hyun Kim
   • Chan IL Park

   Head and Neck Oncology 13 November 2007 Pages: 424 - 429

   

7. Is there any Prognostically Different Subgroup among Patients with Stage IIIC (Any TN3M0) Breast Carcinoma?

   • Nüvit Duraker
   • Zeynep C. Çaynak
   • Bakır Batı

   Breast Oncology 03 October 2007 Pages: 430 - 437

   

8. Terminal Duct Lobular Units are Scarce in the Nipple: Implications for Prophylactic Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy

   • Alan J. Stolier
   • Jianzhou Wang

   Breast Oncology 14 November 2007 Pages: 438 - 442

   

9. Patterns of Surgical Treatment for Women Diagnosed with Early Breast Cancer in Queensland

   • Bridie Thompson
   • Peter Baade
   • Lin Fritschi

   Breast Oncology 02 October 2007 Pages: 443 - 451

10. MRI Screening in a Clinic Population with a Family History of Breast Cancer

    • Jeanne Yu
    • Anna Park
    • Tari A. King

    Breast Oncology 17 November 2007 Pages: 452 - 461

11. The Role of Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration of Axillary Nodes in the Staging of Breast Cancer

    • Ajay Jain
    • Mary Ellen Haisfield-Wolfe
    • Lisa K. Jacobs

    Breast Oncology 06 November 2007 Pages: 462 - 471

    

12. How Important is the Axillary Nodal Status for Adjuvant Treatment Decisions at a Breast Cancer Multidisciplinary Tumor Board? A Survival Analysis

    • Toralf Reimer
    • Rainer Fietkau
    • Bernd Gerber

    Breast Oncology 07 November 2007 Pages: 472 - 477

13. Prognosis of Patients Who Relapse after Fertility-Sparing Surgery in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

    • Olivier Marpeau
    • Jeanne Schilder
    • Philippe Morice

    Gynecologic Oncology 14 December 2007 Pages: 478 - 483

14. Fluorescence in situ Hybridization and Immunohistochemical Analysis of p53 Expression in Endometrial Cancer: Prognostic Value and Relation to Ploidy

    • Olivier Graesslin
    • Sandra Chantot-Bastaraud
    • Emile Daraï

    Gynecologic Oncology 11 December 2007 Pages: 484 - 492

    

15. Value of Intraoperative Parathyroid Hormone Monitoring

    • Jyotirmay Sharma
    • Mira Milas
    • Collin J. Weber

    Endocrine Tumors 17 November 2007 Pages: 493 - 498

    

16. Laparoscopic Resection of Extraadrenal Pheochromocytoma

    • Emmanuel E. Zervos
    • Alan J. Durkin
    • Nasreen Vohra

    Endocrine Tumors 07 November 2007 Pages: 499 - 499

17. Stage-Specific Effect of Adjuvant Therapy Following Gastric Cancer Resection: a Population-based Analysis of 4,041 Patients

    • Natalie G. Coburn
    • Anand Govindarajan
    • Nancy N. Baxter

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 17 November 2007 Pages: 500 - 507

    

18. Indication for endoscopic mucosal resection in early signet ring cell gastric cancer

    • T. K. Ha
    • J. Y. An
    • S. Kim

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 11 December 2007 Pages: 508 - 513

    

19. A Novel Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in XRCC4 Gene is Associated with Gastric Cancer Susceptibility in Taiwan

    • Chang-Fang Chiu
    • Chung-Hsing Wang
    • Da-Tian Bau

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 07 November 2007 Pages: 514 - 518

    

20. Effect of Adjuvant Radiotherapy on Local Recurrence in Stage II Rectal Cancer

    • In Ja Park
    • Hee Cheol Kim
    • Jin Cheon Kim

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 25 October 2007 Pages: 519 - 525

    

21. Pseudomyxoma Peritonei: Clinical Pathological and Biological Prognostic Factors in Patients Treated with Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC)

    • Dario Baratti
    • Shigeki Kusamura
    • Marcello Deraco

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 28 November 2007 Pages: 526 - 534

    

22. Safety and Efficacy of Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemoperfusion with High-Dose Oxaliplatin in Patients with Peritoneal Carcinomatosis

    • Wim P. Ceelen
    • Marc Peeters
    • Piet Pattyn

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 25 October 2007 Pages: 535 - 541

    

23. Closed Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy with Open Abdomen: a Novel Technique to Reduce Exposure of the Surgical Team to Chemotherapy Drugs

    • Laurent Benoit
    • Nicolas Cheynel
    • Patrick Rat

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 10 October 2007 Pages: 542 - 546

    

24. Perimembrane Aurora-A Expression is a Significant Prognostic Factor in Correlation with Proliferative Activity in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

    • Eiji Ogawa
    • Kazumasa Takenaka
    • Fumihiro Tanaka

    Thoracic Oncology Open access 28 November 2007 Pages: 547 - 554

    

25. The Expression of Type IV Collagen α6 Chain Is Related to the Prognosis in Patients with Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

    • Yoshifumi Baba
    • Ken-ichi Iyama
    • Hideo Baba

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 23 October 2007 Pages: 555 - 565

    

26. Impact of the Site of Anastomosis after Oncologic Esophagectomy on Quality of Life — A Prospective, Longitudinal Outcome Study

    • Jan-Hendrik Egberts
    • Bodo Schniewind
    • Juergen Tepel

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 11 October 2007 Pages: 566 - 575

    

27. Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy or Endoscopic Stenting for Advanced Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Esophagus: A Case-Control Study

    • Simon K. H. Wong
    • Philip W. Y. Chiu
    • Enders K. W. Ng

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 05 December 2007 Pages: 576 - 582

    

28. Serum Cytokeratin 19 Fragment (CYFRA21-1) as a Prognostic Factor in Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

    • Takahiro Uenishi
    • Osamu Yamazaki
    • Shoji Kubo

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 23 October 2007 Pages: 583 - 589

    

29. Prognosis of Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma: Hilar Bile Duct Cancer versus Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Involving the Hepatic Hilus

    • Tsuyoshi Sano
    • Kazuaki Shimada
    • Tomoo Kosuge

    Hepatic and Pancreatic Tumors 05 December 2007 Pages: 590 - 599

    

30. Surgical Management of Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma - A Population-Based Study

    • Jensen C. C. Tan
    • Natalie G. Coburn
    • Calvin H. L. Law

    Hepatic and Pancreatic Tumors 07 November 2007 Pages: 600 - 608

    

31. Prognostic Significance of the Immediate Early Response Gene X-1 (IEX-1) Expression in Pancreatic Cancer

    • Tetsuro Sasada
    • Koichi Azuma
    • Arimichi Takabayashi

    Hepatic and Pancreatic Tumors 17 November 2007 Pages: 609 - 617

    

32. Prognostic Factors and Optimal Treatment Strategy for Intrahepatic Nodular Recurrence After Curative Resection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

    • Gi-Hong Choi
    • Dong-Hyun Kim
    • Byong-Ro Kim

    Hepatic and Pancreatic Tumors 15 November 2007 Pages: 618 - 629

    

33. The Complex Relationships Between Sentinel Node Positivity, Patient Age, and Primary Tumor Desmoplasia: Analysis of 2303 Melanoma Patients Treated at a Single Center

    • Sander Sassen
    • Helen M. Shaw
    • John F. Thompson

    Melanomas 14 December 2007 Pages: 630 - 637

34. Biological and Genetic Characteristics of Tumor-Initiating Cells in Colon Cancer

    • Keisuke Ieta
    • Fumiaki Tanaka
    • Masaki Mori

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 12 October 2007 Pages: 638 - 648

    

35. Cetuximab Shows Activity in Colorectal Cancer Patients With Tumors for Which FISH Analysis Does Not Detect an Increase in EGFR Gene Copy Number

    • Antoine Italiano
    • Philippe Follana
    • Eric François

    Gastrointestinal Oncology 07 November 2007 Pages: 649 - 654

    

36. Isolated Adrenal Mass in Cachectic Patients—Don’t Forget Malignant Pheochromocytoma

    • Rinkoo Dalan
    • Veerendra Chadachan
    • Melvin Khee Shing Leow

    Letters to the Editor 25 September 2007 Pages: 655 - 656

    

37. Practice Pearl: A Novel use of Botulinum toxin for Unicameral Bone Cyst Ablation

    • Hamid Namazi

    Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas 23 October 2007 Pages: 657 - 658

38. The Importance of Surgical Margin Control in Breast-Conserving Therapy

    • Dimosthenis Ziogas
    • Nikolaos Xeropotamos
    • Charalabos Batsis

    Letter to the Editor 12 October 2007 Pages: 659 - 660