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  1. The study aimed to evaluate the prognosis for patients with colorectal cancer who underwent surgery while receiving antithrombotic therapy (ATT) across all disease stages and for patients at disease stages 0–III.

    Authors: Kodai Takahashi, Hideto Ito, Masatoshi Hashimoto, Kazuhito Mita, Hideki Asakawa, Takashi Hayashi and Keiichi Fujino
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:161
  2. Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is an autosomally dominant inherited disorder characterized by multiple pigmented skin spots (café-au-lait spots) and neurofibroma. NF1 is associated with a wide variety of benign o...

    Authors: Yuhei Hakozaki, Shinichi Sameshima, Teppei Tatsuoka, Takashi Okuyama, Yukinori Yamagata, Tamaki Noie, Masatoshi Oya, Akiko Fujii, Yoshihiko Ueda, Chieko Shimura and Kazumoto Katagiri
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:160
  3. The role of colonoscopy in the screening of colorectal cancer (CRC) has been unequivocally established. In Germany, screening colonoscopy with full insurance reimbursement is available for individuals aged 55 ...

    Authors: Peter C. Ambe, Stefan Jansen and Hubert Zirngibl
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:159
  4. The efficacy of exercise training in patients with lung cancer after lung resection has not been well established yet. Therefore, we performed a meta-analysis to investigate the efficiency of exercise training...

    Authors: Jie Li, Nan-Nan Guo, Hai-Rong Jin, Hua Yu, Peng Wang and Guo-Gang Xu
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:158
  5. Recurrent pancreatic carcinoma (PC) is generally well known to have a poor prognosis. Cases in which multidisciplinary treatments have been remarkably effective are rare.

    Authors: Shigeru Fujisaki, Motoi Takashina, Ryouichi Tomita, Kenichi Sakurai and Tadatoshi Takayama
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:157
  6. Because hepatectomy is not recommended in patients with stage B hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) of the Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) staging, we evaluated the survival outcomes of hepatectomy for stage B...

    Authors: Toshiya Kamiyama, Tatsuya Orimo, Kenji Wakayama, Shingo Shimada, Akihisa Nagatsu, Hideki Yokoo, Hirofumi Kamachi, Kenichiro Yamashita, Tsuyoshi Shimamura and Akinobu Taketomi
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:156
  7. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are aberrantly expressed in many types of human cancer including pancreatic cancer (PC) and correlated with tumorigenesis and cancer prognosis, whereas knowledge about regulatory...

    Authors: Pinghai Hu, Ou Qiao, Jun Wang, Jiao Li, Hao Jin, Zhaolian Li and Yan Jin
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:155
  8. Fertility-sparing surgery is indicated for patients with stage I epithelial ovarian cancers. We sought to evaluate the clinical outcomes and oncofertility in a cohort of patients of reproductive age with stage...

    Authors: Xuan Jiang, Jiaxin Yang, Mei Yu, Weimin Xie, Dongyan Cao, Ming Wu, Lingya Pan, Huifang Huang, Yan You and Keng Shen
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:154
  9. Colorectal cancer (CRC) was one of the most commonly diagnosed malignancies. The molecular mechanisms involved in the progression of CRC remain unclear. Accumulating evidences showed that long noncoding RNAs (...

    Authors: Haishan Zhu, Jiajing Yu, Haifeng Zhu, Yusheng Guo and Shengjie Feng
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:153
  10. The magnitude of the perioperative inflammatory response plays a role in surgical outcomes. However, few studies have explored the mechanisms of the resolution of inflammation in the context of surgery. Here, ...

    Authors: Juan P. Cata, Jose F. Velasquez, Maria F. Ramirez, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey, Vijaya Gottumukkala, Claudius Conrad, Bradford J. Kim and Thomas Aloia
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:152
  11. Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is one of the most dangerous cancers in the body, producing serious complications with individual behaviors. Many different pathogenetic factors are involved in the carcinog...

    Authors: Soung Min Kim, Dasul Jeong, Min Keun Kim, Sang Shin Lee and Suk Keun Lee
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:151
  12. Thymectomy is the primary approach for the treatment of myasthenia gravis (MG). This retrospective study aimed to identify the clinical and demographical features that may impact the duration of mechanical ven...

    Authors: Kun-Kun Li, Kai Qian, Yong-Geng Feng, Wei Guo, Qun-You Tan and Bo Deng
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:150
  13. The purpose of this study is to investigate the clinical effectiveness of staging radioactive particle implantation guided by computed tomography (CT) and fiber–optic bronchoscopy in treating cancerous large a...

    Authors: Yu Mao, Xiuyan Yang, Ming Li, Wei Guo and Wenhua Zhang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:149
  14. For colorectal liver metastasis (CRLM) patients, hepatic resection is currently the sole cure offering the chance of long-term survival. Tumor shrinkage and planned liver remnant hypertrophy are the two key st...

    Authors: Nan Xiao, Kailin Yu, Shaojun Yu, Jianjun Wu, Jian Wang, Siyang Shan, Shuchun Zheng, Liuhong Wang, Jianwei Wang and Shuyou Peng
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:148
  15. Previous studies have revealed the importance of microRNAs’ (miRNAs) function as biomarkers in diagnosing human bladder cancer (BC). However, the results are discordant. Consequently, the possibility of miRNAs...

    Authors: Hong-Bin Shi, Jia-Xing Yu, Jian-Xiu Yu, Zheng Feng, Chao Zhang, Guang-Yong Li, Rui-Ning Zhao and Xiao-Bo Yang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:147
  16. Colorectal cancer associated with chronic intestinal schistosomiasis has been linked with the chronic inflammation as a result of schistosomal ova deposition in the submucosal layer of the intestine. Among all...

    Authors: Ayesiga M Herman, Alfred Kishe, Heri Babu, Hilary Shilanaiman, Murad Tarmohamed, Jay Lodhia, Patrick Amsi, Jeremia Pyuza, Alex Mremi, Amos Mwasamwaja, Mramba Nyindo, Kondo Chilonga and David Msuya
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:146
  17. Accurate intraoperative localization of esophageal lesions is essential for successful surgical resection. We tested whether preoperative endoscopic placement of titanium clips could facilitate intraoperative ...

    Authors: Lei Tan, Juan Feng, Qin Zhao, Ping Chen and Guotao Yang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:145
  18. Though a number of studies have been conducted to explore the association between myeloperoxidase (MPO)-463G > A polymorphism and cancer risk, the results remain inconsistent. Therefore, we performed a meta-an...

    Authors: Wen-jun Yang, Ming-yue Wang, Fu-ze Pan, Chen Shi and Hong Cen
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:144
  19. Anastomotic leakage (AL) is one of the most dreadful postoperative complications because it can result in increased morbidity and mortality as well as poorer long-term prognosis. Although most studies of AL li...

    Authors: Masayoshi Iwamoto, Kenji Kawada, Koya Hida, Suguru Hasegawa and Yoshiharu Sakai
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:143
  20. Sclerosing mesenteritis is a non-neoplastic inflammatory disease that occurs in the bowel mesentery. Distinguishing sclerosing mesenteritis from neoplasms may be difficult because of the clinical and radiograp...

    Authors: Toshifumi Watanabe, Shiro Terai, Tomoya Tsukada, Masaki Takeshita, Koshi Matsui, Koji Amaya, Masahide Kaji, Kiichi Maeda, Koichi Shimizu, Junko Saito, Kentaro Mochizuki and Akio Uchiyama
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:142
  21. Gastric cancer rarely metastasizes to the oral cavity, especially to gingiva. Only 18 cases have been reported worldwide to date. This paper herein presents the nineteenth case of gingival metastasis from gast...

    Authors: Zhili Wu, Jun Tang, Yan Li, Husheng Lu, Jun Xu and Donglai Lv
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:141
  22. Lynch syndrome is the most common form of hereditary colorectal carcinoma. It is characterized by the presence of germline mutations in DNA mismatch repair genes. Mutation carriers have a lifetime risk of deve...

    Authors: Masashi Utsumi, Kohji Tanakaya, Yutaka Mushiake, Tomoyoshi Kunitomo, Isao Yasuhara, Fumitaka Taniguchi, Takashi Arata, Koh Katsuda, Hideki Aoki and Hitoshi Takeuchi
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:140
  23. This retrospective study and meta-analysis was designed to explore the relationship between E-cadherin (E-cad) expression and the molecular subtypes of invasive non-lobular breast cancer, especially in early-s...

    Authors: Jiang-Bo Liu, Chen-Yi Feng, Miao Deng, Dong-Feng Ge, De-Chun Liu, Jian-Qiang Mi and Xiao-Shan Feng
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:139
  24. It is still under debate that whether stage IV colorectal cancer patients with unresectable metastasis can benefit from primary tumor resection, especially for asymptomatic colorectal cancer patients. Retrospe...

    Authors: Rong-xin Zhang, Wen-juan Ma, Yu-ting Gu, Tian-qi Zhang, Zhi-mei Huang, Zhen-hai Lu and Yang-kui Gu
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:138
  25. Giant cell tumor of soft tissue (GCT-ST), which histologically resembles GCT of bone, is a rare tumor. Usually, it is located in the lower extremities and trunk. GCT-ST, occurring in mediastinum, is extremely ...

    Authors: Qiongjie Hu, Jian Peng and Liming Xia
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:137
  26. Sub-lethal heat treatment characterizes a transition zone of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) which explains hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) residual cancer occurrence in this area after RFA treatment. The biochem...

    Authors: Qingsong Deng, Shihan Chen, Chunchuan Fu, Jiayun Jiang, Mengda Zou, Yunhua Tan, Xiaofei Wang, Feng Xia, Kai Feng, Kuansheng Ma and Ping Bie
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:136
  27. Gastric cancer remains a formidable treatment challenge. For decades, treatment consisted mostly of surgical intervention for this deadly disease. With improvements in the multi-disciplinary management of soli...

    Authors: Tianxiang Chen, Dongsheng Yan, Zhiqiang Zheng, Jiayi Yang and Xiang Da (Eric) Dong
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:135
  28. Many studies have assessed the volume-outcome relationship in cancer patients, but most focused on better outcomes in higher volume groups rather than identifying a specific threshold that could assist in clin...

    Authors: Hyeok Choi, Seong-Yoon Yang, Hee-Seung Cho, Woorim Kim, Eun-Cheol Park and Kyu-Tae Han
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:134
  29. The morbidity of papillary thyroid microcarcinomas is increasing worldwide. Surgery is the main treatment for papillary thyroid microcarcinomas, and the choice of surgical method partly depends on the T stage ...

    Authors: Xingjie Yin, Chunping Liu, Yawen Guo, Xiaoyu Li, Na Shen, Xiangwang Zhao, Pan Yu, Shan Wang and Zeming Liu
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:133

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  30. This study aimed to evaluate the current status of secondary debulking surgery (SDS) and tertiary debulking surgery (TDS; performed for recurrence after SDS) and to assess the overall survival after recurrence...

    Authors: Tomoko Hirakawa, Takeo Minaguchi, Yoshio Itani, Yuka Kasamatsu, Saki Murase, Shoko Sakurada, Hiroaki Nagano, Kazuhiro Takehara, Tomohiko Tsuruta, Atsushi Arakawa, Kouichiro Kawano, Hiroshi Tsubamoto, Takashi Ushiwaka, Taisuke Mori, Kana Iwai, Motoaki Saito…
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:132
  31. Spinal epidermoid cysts are benign tumors, which are rarely seen as an intradural extramedullary spinal cord tumor in the conus medullaris region. Acquired spinal epidermoid cysts are mostly caused by iatrogen...

    Authors: Haruki Funao, Norihiro Isogai, Kenshi Daimon, Yuichiro Mima, Hitoshi Sugiura, Takahiro Koyanagi, Masaya Nakamura, Morio Matsumoto and Ken Ishii
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:131
  32. Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is a useful and less invasive procedure for the definitive diagnosis of mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes. However, infectious compl...

    Authors: Yujiro Yokoyama, Takahiro Nakagomi, Daichi Shikata, Rumi Higuchi, Toshio Oyama and Taichiro Goto
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:130
  33. Skin-sparing mastectomy (SSM) is increasingly used in patients with breast cancer. We compared the differences between use of electrocautery and LigaSureâ„¢ Small Jaw in patients with breast cancer who underwent...

    Authors: Young Woo Chang, Hwan Soo Kim, Seung Pil Jung, Sang Uk Woo, Jae Bok Lee, Jeoung Won Bae and Gil Soo Son
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:129
  34. The aim of this study was the evaluation of breast MRI in determining the size and focality of invasive non-metastatic breast cancers.

    Authors: Anne-julie Carin, Sébastien Molière, Victor Gabriele, Massimo Lodi, Nicolas Thiébaut, Karl Neuberger and Carole Mathelin
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:128
  35. The objective of this study was to assess the feasibility of detecting the variation of sentinel lymphatic channels (SLCs) and sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) in breast cancer patients using contrast-enhanced ultr...

    Authors: Ying Wang, Wenbin Zhou, Cuiying Li, Haiyan Gong, Chunlian Li, Nianzhao Yang, Xiaoming Zha, Lin Chen, Tiansong Xia, Xiaoan Liu, Minghai Wang and Qiang Ding
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:127
  36. Percutaneous ablation has quickly arisen as one of the important alternative treatments for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We aimed to compare the therapeutic effects of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and othe...

    Authors: Wen Luo, Yunfei Zhang, Guangbin He, Ming Yu, Minjuan Zheng, Liwen Liu and Xiaodong Zhou
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:126
  37. Transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) is the standard approach to bladder tumors but suffers from several disadvantages. The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a novel proc...

    Authors: Kai-Yan Zhang, Jin-Chun Xing, Wei Li, Zhun Wu, Bin Chen and Dong-Yu Bai
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:125
  38. Colonic metastasis from breast carcinoma is very rare. Here, we report a case of colonic metastasis from breast carcinoma.

    Authors: Kazuma Tsujimura, Tsuyoshi Teruya, Masaya Kiyuna, Kuniki Higa, Junko Higa, Kouji Iha, Kiyoshi Chinen, Masaya Asato, Yasukatsu Takushi, Morihito Ota, Eijirou Dakeshita, Atsushi Nakachi, Akira Gakiya and Hiroshi Shiroma
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:124
  39. Linitis plastica due to gastric adenocarcinoma is a condition with a long history, but still lacks a standardized definition and is commonly confused with Borrmann type IV, Lauren diffuse, and signet-cell type...

    Authors: Annamaria Agnes, Jeannelyn S. Estrella and Brian Badgwell
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:123
  40. The risk factors for recurrence and death after radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remain poorly known. This study was aimed to study the 10-year overall survival (OS) of HCC trea...

    Authors: Weimin Zhang, Erping Luo, Jianhe Gan, Xiaomin Song, Zuowei Bao, Huiping Zhang and Minhua Chen
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:122
  41. Clinical prognostic parameters of liver metastasis from pancreatic adenocarcinoma have not been specifically identified.This study is to explore the risk factors of liver metastasis in advanced pancreatic aden...

    Authors: Dong S., Wang L., Guo Y. B., Ying H. F., Shen X. H., Meng Z. Q., Chen Hao, Chen Q. W. and Li Z. S.
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:120
  42. Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common malignancy in thyroid tissue, and the number of patients with PTC has been increasing in recent years. Discovering the mechanism of PTC genesis and progress...

    Authors: Wenzheng Chen, Qingfeng Liu, Yunxia Lv, Debin Xu, Wanzhi Chen and Jichun Yu
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:119
  43. Recent registry studies on early-stage breast cancer have shown better survival rates when women underwent breast-conserving therapy (BCT) compared with mastectomy (MTX). The aim of this study is to investigat...

    Authors: Olaf Johan Hartmann-Johnsen, Rolf Kåresen, Ellen Schlichting and Jan F. Nygård
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:118
  44. Metastatic breast tumors from other organs are very rare. We herein describe the case of a patient with a metastatic breast tumor due to ovarian cancer who was diagnosed by the succession of a p53 mutation.

    Authors: Ryutaro Mori, Manabu Futamura, Kasumi Morimitsu, Chiemi Saigo, Tatsuhiko Miyazaki and Kazuhiro Yoshida
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:117
  45. Microsatellite instability (MSI) operates as the second major pathway in the colorectal carcinogenesis. Although genetic testing remains the gold standard for the detection of MSI, the College of American Path...

    Authors: Atif Ali Hashmi, Rabia Ali, Zubaida Fida Hussain, Naveen Faridi, Erum Yousuf Khan, Syed Muhammad Abu Bakar, Muhammad Muzzammil Edhi and Mehmood Khan
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:116
  46. This study aims at exploring the correlations between DNA methylation and polymorphisms in the promoter region of the human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) gene and postoperative recurrence in patient...

    Authors: Jian-Jun Li, Ping Chen Jue-Ru Zheng and Yao-Zong Wang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:114
  47. The current study sought to perform a meta-analysis to compare the preoperative staging of endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) and multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) in gastric carcinoma.

    Authors: Run-Cong Nie, Shu-Qiang Yuan, Xiao-Jiang Chen, Shi Chen, Li-Pu Xu, Yong-Ming Chen, Bao-Yan Zhu, Xiao-Wei Sun, Zhi-Wei Zhou and Ying-Bo Chen
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017 15:113

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