- VHA Directive 1415, VHA Oncology Program - Veterans Affairs
This directive formalizes responsibility, oversight, and organizes the delivery of high-quality cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, staging, treatment, tumor boards, molecular analysis, symptom management, palliative care, end-of-life-care, cancer care coordination and patient navigation, clinical research, and personnel requirements
- Implementing Value-Based Health Care in Surgical Oncology: A . . .
Below, we describe key characteristics to be considered in designing a conceptual APM for surgical oncology including (1) bundling of perioperative services, (2) determining patient eligibility and risk adjustment, and (3) selecting standardized outcome metrics
- Surgical Oncology: Contemporary Principles and Practice
Surgical Oncology: Contemporary Principles and Practice offers in 24 chapters a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art management of the most common solid neoplasms, reflecting the extraordinary advances that have been achieved over the last decade
- Principles of Surgical Oncology - Holland-Frei Cancer . . .
Surgery is most effective in the treatment of localized primary tumor and associated regional lymphatics This is accomplished by en bloc surgical procedures that attempt to encompass gross and microscopic tumor in all contiguous and adjacent anatomic locations
- Newer Diagnostic Methods in Oncology - PMC
PET scan especially integrated PET and CT scan have established its role in various management issues of colorectal cancer High sensitivity and specificity (> 90%) has been achieved in early detection, accurate staging, diagnosis and staging of recurrent disease and monitoring response to treatment [ 31 ]
- Surgical Oncology Overview - The American Cancer Societys . . .
This chapter is an overview of the history of surgical oncology and the role it plays in diagnosis, staging, curative resection, management of metastatic disease, palliation, reconstruction, surgical prophylaxis, access surgery and minimally invasive surgery
- Principles of surgical oncology | Oxford Textbook of . . .
In order to be effective in cancer management, surgeons must have a sound working grasp of cancer biology, how cancers spread (and the principles of staging) and the complementary roles of systemic (chemo- and biological) and radiation (external beam and targeted) therapies in the management of the cancer patient
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