Background A watch-and-wait approach for patients with clinical complete response to
neoadjuvant chemoradiation could avoid the morbidity of conventional surgery for rectal cancer. …

Background: Over the past 2 decades, there has been an increase in opioid use and
subsequently, opioid deaths. The amount of opioid prescribed to surgical patients has also …

Background The risk of port-site metastasis after laparoscopic removal of incidental gallbladder
cancer was previously estimated to be 14–30%. The present study was designed to …

BACKGROUND: The traditional approach for perforated diverticulitis, the Hartmann procedure,
has considerable morbidity and the challenge of stoma reversal. Alternative procedures, …

BACKGROUND: Locally advanced colon cancer is considered a relative contraindication
for laparoscopic resection, and clinical trials addressing the oncologic safety are lacking. …

Objective: To determine whether laparoscopic surgery is noninferior to open surgery for
rectal cancer in terms of quality of surgical resection outcomes. Background: Randomized …

Importance Functional outcomes are central to cancer care decision-making by older adults.
Objective To assess the long-term functional outcomes of older adults after a resection for …

By 2040, the incidence of solid cancers among patients older than 70 years will increase from
1.2 million to 2.2 million in North America alone. 1 Older adults with cancer are at highest …

Background Our aim was to assess the effect of adjuvant radiotherapy on recurrence and
survival for elderly women (≥70) with early-stage hormone receptor-positive breast cancer …

Objective: To determine if Black race is associated with worse short-term postoperative
morbidity and mortality when compared to White race in a contemporary, cross-specialty-…