RT Book, Section
A1 Ellison, E. Christopher
A1 Zollinger, Jr., Robert M.
A1 Pawlik, Timothy M.
A1 Vaccaro, Patrick S.
A1 Bitans, Marita
A1 Baker, Anthony S.
SR Print(0)
ID 1187820394
T1 Principles of Oncologic Surgery
T2 Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations, 11e
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260440850
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1187820394
RD 2023/03/28
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.