SP-0178: The future of surgical oncology

Presidential address: surgical oncology-Expectations for the Future.

Pediatric surgical oncology in China: present and future.

P ediatric surgical oncology is a relatively new and rapidly developing field. Over the past 50 years, great progress has been made in diagnosis, treatment, and survival of children with cancer. In the 1960s, the survival rate for children with malignant solid tumors was below 25%, whereas it has exceeded 75% at present. This dramatic change is attributable to the creation of multidisciplinary ...

The future of thoracic oncology.

The Future of Cellular Oncology

Cancer research has witnessed a turbulent period over the last years in which many new developments in genomics, tumor cell biology, biotechnology, tumor phenotype analysis and clinical oncology have come together. Medicine has taken a new course, which to a large extent is due to the genomics revolution that has had an enormous impact on biomedical sciences in general and oncology in particula...

Surgical oncology.

R urgical oncology may be the best subspecialty in surgery ecause it allows for expertise in a great variety of types of ases, which include liver resections, Whipple operations, xtensive bowel resections, large soft-tissue resections for arcomas, and treatment of breast cancer and melanoma. urgical oncology training also is a good entry point for urgeons who want to treat only breast cancer. N...