Vol 8, No 1 (February 22, 2017): Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology

Original Article

Family history of colorectal cancer and its impact on survival in patients with resected stage III colon cancer: results from NCCTG Trial N0147 (Alliance)
Claire L. Jansson-Knodell, Nathan R. Foster, Daniel J. Sargent, Paul J. Limburg, Stephen N. Thibodeau, Thomas C. Smyrk, Frank A. Sinicrope, Balkrishna Jahagirdar, Richard M. Goldberg, Steven R. Alberts
The anatomy of the TNM for colon cancer
Donald E. Henson, Matthew T. Hueman, Dechang Chen, Jigar A. Patel, Huan Wang, Arnold M. Schwartz
Next generation sequencing identifies ‘interactome’ signatures in relapsed and refractory metastatic colorectal cancer
Benny Johnson, Laurence Cooke, Daruka Mahadevan
Utility of the Edmonton Frail Scale in identifying frail elderly patients during treatment of colorectal cancer
Brandon M. Meyers, Humaid O. Al-Shamsi, Sara Rask, Radhika Yelamanchili, Callista M. Phillips, Alexandra Papaioannou, Gregory R. Pond, Neera Jeyabalan, Kevin M. Zbuk, Sukhbinder Kaur Dhesy-Thind
Pathologic complete response and disease-free survival are not surrogate endpoints for 5-year survival in rectal cancer: an analysis of 22 randomized trials
Fausto Petrelli, Karen Borgonovo, Mary Cabiddu, Mara Ghilardi, Veronica Lonati, Sandro Barni
Prognostic influence of histopathological regression patterns in rectal adenocarcinoma receiving neoadjuvant therapy
Ma Jesús Fernández-Aceñero, Lourdes Estrada Muñoz, Javier Sastre Varela, Juan Antonio Corona Sánchez, Cristina Díaz del Arco, Beatriz García Paredes, Sofía Córdoba Largo, Laura del Puerto Nevado
Clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes of patients with colorectal cancer who develop brain metastasis: a single institution experience
Christos Fountzilas, Katherine Chang, Brian Hernandez, Joel Michalek, Richard Crownover, John Floyd, Devalingam Mahalingam
Investigation of the human H3.3B (H3F3B) gene expression as a novel marker in patients with colorectal cancer
Habib Allah Ayoubi, Frouzandeh Mahjoubi, Rezvan Mirzaei
Baseline hemoglobin and liver function predict tolerability and overall survival of patients receiving radioembolization for chemotherapy-refractory metastatic colorectal cancer
Andrew S. Kennedy, David Ball, Steven J. Cohen, Michael Cohn, Douglas M. Coldwell, Alain Drooz, Edward Ehrenwald, Samir Kanani, Fred M. Moeslein, Charles W. Nutting, Samuel G. Putnam III, Steven C. Rose, Michael Savin, Sabine Schirm, Navesh K. Sharma, Eric Wang
Depression, anxiety, and health related quality of life among colorectal cancer survivors
Nayyereh Aminisani, Hosseinali Nikbakht, Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi, Seyed Morteza Shamshirgaran
Clinical characteristics of adenosquamous esophageal carcinoma
Sai Yendamuri, Usha Malhotra, Mark Hennon, Austin Miller, Adrienne Groman, Alaa Halloon, Mary E. Reid
Outcome of young patients with rectal adenocarcinoma
Leonardo Saúl Lino-Silva, Rosa A. Salcedo-Hernández, Erika B. Ruiz-García, Alberto M. León-Takahashi, Leticia García-Pérez
The frequency of histologically confirmed Barrett’s esophagus varies by the combination of ethnicity and gender
Sian S. Chisholm, Joe E. Khoury, M. Mazen Jamal, Carlos Palacio, Sunitha Pudhota, Kenneth J. Vega
Differences in symptom occurrence, severity, and distress ratings between patients with gastrointestinal cancers who received chemotherapy alone or chemotherapy with targeted therapy
Ilufredo Y. Tantoy, Anand Dhruva, Janine Cataldo, Alan Venook, Bruce A. Cooper, Steven M. Paul, Jon D. Levine, Yvette P. Conley, Frances Cartwright, Kathryn Lee, Fay Wright, Christine Miaskowski
Identifying prognostic intratumor heterogeneity using pre- and post-radiotherapy 18F-FDG PET images for pancreatic cancer patients
Yong Yue, Arsen Osipov, Benedick Fraass, Howard Sandler, Xiao Zhang, Nicholas Nissen, Andrew Hendifar, Richard Tuli
Clinicopathologic study of neuroendocrine tumors of gastroenteropancreatic tract: a single institutional experience
Megha S. Uppin, Shantveer G. Uppin, Chittiboyina Shiva Prasada Venkata Sunil, Monalisa Hui, Tara Roshni Paul, Nagari Bheerappa
Prognostic value of diffuse versus intestinal histotype in patients with gastric cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Fausto Petrelli, Rosa Berenato, Luca Turati, Alessia Mennitto, Francesca Steccanella, Marta Caporale, Pierpaolo Dallera, Filippo de Braud, Ezio Pezzica, Maria Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni Sgroi, Vincenzo Mazzaferro, Filippo Pietrantonio, Sandro Barni
Potential actionable targets in appendiceal cancer detected by immunohistochemistry, fluorescent in situ hybridization, and mutational analysis
Erkut Borazanci, Sherri Z. Millis, Jeffery Kimbrough, Nancy Doll, Daniel Von Hoff, Ramesh K. Ramanathan
Inflammatory bowel diseases activity in patients undergoing pelvic radiation therapy
Pierre Annede, Thomas Seisen, Caroline Klotz, Renaud Mazeron, Pierre Maroun, Claire Petit, Eric Deutsch, Alberto Bossi, Christine Haie-Meder, Cyrus Chargari, Pierre Blanchard
High dose chemoradiation for unresectable hilar cholangiocarcinomas using intensity modulated external beam radiotherapy: a single tertiary care centre experience
Reena Engineer, Shaesta Mehta, Nikhil Kalyani, Suresh Chaudhari, Tejas Dharia, Nitin Shetty, Supriya Chopra, Mahesh Goel, Suyash Kulkarni, Shyam Kishore Shrivastava

Letter to the Editor

Rectal cancer restaging after neoadjuvant chemoradiation: towards a down-staging score system
Antonio Manenti, Luca Roncati, Massimiliano Salati, Emilio Simonini, Maurizio Zizzo, Alberto Farinetti

Case Report

Minimally invasive Ivor-Lewis esophagectomy for esophageal cancer with right aortic arch
Jeremy Linson, Michael Latzko, Bestoun Ahmed, Ziad Awad
Multiple angiodysplasia diagnosed by capsule endoscopy
Giulia Diamantini, Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri, Fabio Procacciante
Is surgery mandatory in locally advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors after imatinib? A case report and literature review
Sabrina Rossi, Teresa Congedo, Riccardo Ricci, Maurizio Martini, Vincenzo Di Noia, Carmela Di Dio, Michela Quirino, Carlo Barone, Alessandra Cassano
The role of chemotherapy in gastric cancer-related microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia
Monica Tang, David Goldstein
Gastric metastasis of bilateral breast cancer
Omar Jmour, Asma Belaïd, Fahmi Mghirbi, Khalil Béhi, Raoudha Doghri, Farouk Benna
EBV-associated hepatic smooth muscle tumor of uncertain biologic behavior after heart transplantation in a pediatric patient: case report
Yan Liu, Suneetha Chintalapati, Robin Dietz, Adnan S. Raza, Jun Wan, Anwar Sultana Raza
Acute pancreatitis as a complication of trans-arterial chemoembolization of hepatocellular cancer—case report and review of literature
Padmini Krishnamurthy, Mathew Brown, Sangeeta Agrawal, Robert F. Short