TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Principles of Oncologic Surgery A1 - Ellison, E. Christopher A1 - Zollinger, Jr., Robert M. A1 - Pawlik, Timothy M. A1 - Vaccaro, Patrick S. A1 - Bitans, Marita A1 - Baker, Anthony S. PY - 2022 T2 - Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations, 11e AB - At the outset, it is important to clarify the difference between cancer surgery and surgical oncology. The former is a process by which a surgeon separates a tumor from a patient, whereas the latter is a cognitive discipline in which the practitioner provides care as an oncologist who uses surgery as her or his main modality of therapy. By implication, the surgical oncologist not only knows how to perform a given surgical procedure but also, equally important, knows when to perform that procedure, taking into account the role of other modalities of treatment, the natural history of a malignant disease, quality-of-life implications, and related issues, as will be discussed below. It is of note that providing this type of expertise is independent of board certification status in complex surgical oncology because many general surgeons have not undergone formal surgical oncology training per se yet have extensive experience from which to draw. The discipline of surgical oncology is a cognitive as well as a technical approach to the solid tumor patient. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1187820394 ER -