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Tuesday, January 23, 2018

ONCOLOGY HANDBOOK

      What are the components of contemporary surgical care for the patient burdened by cancer? The answer to this question is to be found in the discipline of surgical oncology, which is arguably more of a cognitive than a technical surgical specialty. Other than several surgical procedures that are only infrequently performed outside of cancer centers (such as trisegmentectomy, hemipelvec-tomy, and regional pancreatectomy), the specialty of surgical oncology focuses on integrating surgery with other modalities of cancer treatment such as radiation oncology and systemic chemotherapy approaches. This integration is achieved via the crucible of prospective clinical trials that have emerged as the hallmark of clinical scientific research in oncology. To be effective, the surgical oncologist must understand the natural biology of solid tumors including their inception, proliferation, and dissemination. Such an understanding also implies a more than passing awareness of the underlying basic and translational science that is currently pushing the frontiers of our understanding in oncology further and further.
In addition to knowledge about the natural biology of tumors, the surgical oncologist must be intimately aware of the diagnostic options in the initial evaluation of the tumor and the staging systems by which a given tumor can be described, prognosis ascertained, and therapeutic algorithms accessed. The applicable treatments and their indications, risks, and benefits are critically important as part of this cognitive armamentarium. Moreover, in this era of managed care and cost containment, outcomes and research-defined surveillance strategies are also a part of the knowledge base of the practicing surgical oncologist.
The targeted audience of, The M. D. Anderson Surgical Oncology Handbook, now in its fourth edition, includes surgeons-in-training as well as surgeons of all specialties who are in practice. Other healthcare professionals will no doubt find this concise manual to be of use as a ready reference as well, in much the same manner as the first and second editions of this book has been utilized by the oncology community at large. The credit for this current handbook belongs to the present and former surgical oncology fellows at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. These efforts, coupled with your own interest, will help ensure that the solid tumor oncology patient receives the best possible multimodality care available. We hope that you find this handbook useful in this critical effort.
Raphael E. Pollock M.D., Ph.D.
Head, Division of Surgery, Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgical Oncology, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas