Vol 7, No 6 (December 09, 2016) - Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology

Special Report

Advances in cholangiocarcinoma research: report from the third Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation Annual Conference

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, Jesper B. Andersen, William Chapman, Michael Choti, Stuart J. Forbes, Gregory J. Gores, Theodore S. Hong, James J. Harding, Matthew G. Vander Heiden, Milind Javle, Robin K. Kelley, Lawrence N. Kwong, Maeve Lowery, Allyson Merrell, Katsuyuki Miyabe, Andrew Rhim, Supriya Saha, Daniela Sia, Suebpong Tanasanvimon, Alan Venook, Juan W. Valle, Chad Walesky, Jonathan Whetstine, Holger Willenbring, Andrew X. Zhu, Donna Mayer, Ben Z. Stanger

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Original Article

Phase II study of bevacizumab and preoperative chemoradiation for esophageal adenocarcinoma

Geoffrey Y. Ku, Manjit S. Bains, Do Joong Park, Yelena Y. Janjigian, Valerie W. Rusch, Nabil P. Rizk, Sam S. Yoon, Brittanie Millang, Marinela Capanu, Karyn A. Goodman, David H. Ilson

PDF Pages: 828-837 Full Text (4268) Open Access

EGFR family and cMet expression profiles and prognostic significance in esophagogastric adenocarcinoma

Ellie Chan, Ahmad Alkhasawneh, Lizette Vila Duckworth, Tabish Aijaz, Tania Zuluaga Toro, Xiaomin Lu, Steven J. Hughes, Amy Collinsworth, Thomas J. George Jr

PDF Pages: 838-847 Full Text (4884) Open Access

Prognostic impact of tumour-associated B cells and plasma cells in oesophageal and gastric adenocarcinoma

Richard Fristedt, David Borg, Charlotta Hedner, Jonna Berntsson, Björn Nodin, Jakob Eberhard, Patrick Micke, Karin Jirström

PDF Pages: 848-859 Full Text (4546) Open Access

Radioembolization with ⁹⁰Y glass microspheres for the treatment of unresectable metastatic liver disease from chemotherapy-refractory gastrointestinal cancers: final report of a prospective pilot study

Nicholas Fidelman, Robert K. Kerlan Jr, Randall A. Hawkins, Miguel Pampaloni, Andrew G. Taylor, Maureen P. Kohi, K. Pallav Kolli, Chloe E. Atreya, Emily K. Bergsland, R. Kate Kelley, Andrew H. Ko, W. Michael Korn, Katherine Van Loon, Ryan M. McWhirter, Jennifer Luan, Curt Johanson, Alan P. Venook

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Percutaneous biliary drainage catheter insertion in patients with extensive hepatic metastatic tumor burden

Eun L. Langman, Paul V. Suhocki, Herbert I. Hurwitz, Michael A. Morse, Rebecca A. Burbridge, Tony P. Smith, Charles Y. Kim

PDF Pages: 875-881 Full Text (4708) Open Access

Molecular spectrum of KRAS, NRAS, BRAF, PIK3CA, TP53, and APC somatic gene mutations in Arab patients with colorectal cancer: determination of frequency and distribution pattern

Humaid O. Al-Shamsi, Jeremy Jones, Yazan Fahmawi, Ibrahim Dahbour, Aziz Tabash, Reham Abdel-Wahab, Ahmed O. S. Abousamra, Kenna R. Shaw, Lianchun Xiao, Manal M. Hassan, Benjamin R. Kipp, Scott Kopetz, Amr S. Soliman, Robert R. McWilliams, Robert A. Wolff

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Results of intraoperative electron beam radiotherapy containing multimodality treatment for locally unresectable T4 rectal cancer: a pooled analysis of the Mayo Clinic Rochester and Catharina Hospital Eindhoven

Fabian A. Holman, Michael G. Haddock, Leonard L. Gunderson, Miranda Kusters, Grard A. P. Nieuwenhuijzen, Hetty A. van den Berg, Heidi Nelson, Harm J. T. Rutten

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Colorectal cancer anatomic distribution patterns remain the same after sessile serrated adenoma/polyp considered cancer precursor: a 9-year comparison study from community-based endoscopy centers

Juliana F. Yang, Amy E. Noffsinger, Deepak Agrawal, Qing-Hua Yang

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Usefulness and feasibility of endoscopic submucosal dissection for colorectal tumor: a nationwide multicenter retrospective study in Korea

Ji Hye Kim, Il Hyun Baek, Kyoung Oh Kim, Hyun Joo Jang, Gwang Ho Baik, Chang Kyun Lee, Kyeong Won Min

PDF Pages: 924-930 Full Text (3400) Open Access

Pretreatment tumor volume as a prognostic factor in metastatic colorectal cancer treated with selective internal radiation to the liver using yttrium-90 resin microspheres

Neha Bhooshan, Navesh K. Sharma, Shahed Badiyan, Adeel Kaiser, Fred M. Moeslein, Young Kwok, Pradip P. Amin, Svetlana Kudryasheva, Michael D. Chuong

PDF Pages: 931-937 Full Text (3674) Open Access

Effect of gender on psychosocial adjustment of colorectal cancer survivors with ostomy

Sital Gautam, Anju Poudel

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Less than 12 lymph nodes in the surgical specimen after neoadjuvant chemo-radiotherapy: an indicator of tumor regression in locally advanced rectal cancer?

Jaiprakash Gurawalia, Kapil Dev, Sandeep P. Nayak, Vishnu Kurpad, Arun Pandey

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Surgical outcomes of post chemoradiotherapy unresectable locally advanced rectal cancers improve with interim chemotherapy, is FOLFIRINOX better than CAPOX?

Vikas Ostwal, Reena Engineer, Anant Ramaswamy, Arvind Sahu, Saurabh Zanwar, Suprita Arya, Supriya Chopra, Munita Bal, Prachi Patil, Ashwin Desouza, Avanish Saklani

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Disparities in receipt of radiotherapy and survival by age, sex, and race among patients with non-metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the anus

Doug M. Baughman, Binay K. Shah

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Clinical, morphologic, and immunophenotypic characteristics of ampullary carcinomas with an emphasis on SMAD4 expression

Ahmad Alkhasawneh, Lizette Vila Duckworth, Thomas J. George, Neelam V. Desai, Alex J. Sommerfeld, Xiaomin Lu, Tania Zuluaga Toro

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Performance status and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio are important prognostic factors in elderly patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer

Makoto Kadokura, Yasuaki Ishida, Akihisa Tatsumi, Ei Takahashi, Hiroko Shindo, Fumitake Amemiya, Shinichi Takano, Mitsuharu Fukasawa, Tadashi Sato, Nobuyuki Enomoto

PDF Pages: 982-988 Full Text (4158) Open Access