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SurgOnc Today®
SurgOnc Today® is an educational podcast for cancer surgeons from the Society of Surgical Oncology. Each episode features conversations with individuals who are experts within their respective fields and are members of SSO.
Episodes
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: HPB Micro-Learning: Palliation in Pancreas Cancer Part 2 - ENDURO Authors Interview
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Dr. Zhi Ven Fong, of the HPB Disease Site Work Group interviews Dr. Yorick L. van de Pavert about the ENDURO Trial's…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: ASCO Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Breast Cancer Guideline Review
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, we discuss the recently updated ASCO guidelines for axillary staging with sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer, as…
SurgOnc Today®Outside the OR: Raising the Standards: Building Better Cancer Care
In this episode of Outside the OR, we explore how collaboration between the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) and the American College of Surgeons Cancer…
SurgOnc Today®ASO Article Series: "Highlights and Perspectives from the Society of Surgical Oncology's Statements on Bilateral and Contralateral Risk-Reducing Mastectomy."
In this new episode of Speaking of SurgOnc, Dr. Rick Greene and Dr. Shayna Showalter discuss recently updated considerations by the SSO Breast Task Force…
SurgOnc Today®SOI Article Series: "Immunotherapy in gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma: What is the state of management?"
In this episode of SurgOnc Today's Surgical Oncology Insight series, Dr. Monisha Sudarshan, Section Editor of the Thoracic Editorial Board section, discusses…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Value-Based Care in Cancer Surgery: Policy, Advocacy, Access, and Equity
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Casey Allen leads a discussion with Oluwadamilola Fayanju, Laura Dominici, Michael Egger, Cristina O'Donoghue, and Winta…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: 2025 HPB Wrapped: Part 1
In this episode, join the SSO HPB disease site working group as they count down the first five studies in the 2025 HPB wrapped. This episode dives into some of…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: 2025 HPB Wrapped: Part 2
In this episode, join the SSO HPB disease site working group as they count down the final five studies in the 2025 HPB wrapped. This episode dives into some of…
SurgOnc Today®ASO Article Series: "The Landmark Series: Evaluation and Management of Adrenal Incidentalomas."
In this new episode of Speaking of SurgOnc, Dr. Rick Greene discusses with Dr. Lily Owei and Dr. Heather Wachtel key principles regarding the understanding and…
SurgOnc Today®Family Planning and Fertility Series Part 3: Fertility Preservation
Family planning and fertility preservation can pose challenges for trainees and new surgical oncology attendings. The SSO Fellows and Young Attendings…
SurgOnc Today®Outside the OR: Surgical Oncology Meets Public Policy
In this episode, Dr. Jeffrey E. Gershenwald discusses the critical role surgical oncologists play in advancing evidence-based public policy. Using the FDA's…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Small Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: When to Watch and Wait?
With updated thyroid cancer guidelines, adjunct diagnostic and treatment tools, and growing interest in minimalist approaches, it is increasingly challenging…
SurgOnc Today®Family Planning and Fertility Series Part 2: Family Planning Considerations as a Surgical Oncology Attending
Family planning and fertility preservation can pose challenges for trainees and new surgical oncology attendings. The SSO Fellows and Young Attendings…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Molecular Approaches to Ampullary Adenocarcinoma
On this episode of SurgOnc Today, SSO GI Disease Site Working Group members Dr. Brett Ecker, Dr. Prejesh Philips and Dr. Marion Liu review the latest data on…
SurgOnc Today®Family Planning and Fertility Series Part 1: Pregnancy and Parenthood While in Surgical Training
Family planning and fertility preservation can pose challenges for trainees and new surgical oncology attendings. The SSO Fellows and Young Attendings…
SurgOnc Today®Outside the OR: The Global Cancer Burden, the SSO, and You!
In this episode of Outside the OR, Dr. Russell Berman sits down with Dr. Peter Kingham to talk about the rising global cancer burden and why it matters to…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Management of Male Breast Cancer
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, SSO Breast Disease Site Working Group members Drs. David Anderson, Fred Dirbas, and Suzanne Klimberg dive into management of…
SurgOnc Today®ASO Article Series: "Great Debate: Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy for Colorectal Peritoneal Metastases—Should It Be Offered?"
In this new episode of Speaking of SurgOnc, Dr. Rick Greene discusses with Dr. Mecker G. Möller crucial questions regarding colorectal peritoneal metastasis…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Native American Heritage Month
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Jonathan Baines, MD, Donald Warne, MD, and Lori Arviso Alvord, MD discuss advocacy and mentoring of Native American and URM…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Duodenal Adenocarcinoma: Tailoring Surgical Approach by Tumor Location
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Mark Knab, Charles Vining, and Kelvin Allenson discuss how the anatomic location of duodenal adenocarcinoma—from the first to…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Introducing Histothripsy Into Clinical Practice
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, the SSO HPB disease site working group reviews strategies for implementation of histothripsy ablation in the management of…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Conversation Regarding Adjuvant Therapy for Stage II Melanoma
Drs. Kavita Vakharia, surgical oncologist from City of Hope, Dr Sara Bateni, surgical oncologist at University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dr Nikhil Khushalanai…
SurgOnc Today®ASO Article Series: "Oncolactation for Patients with Breast Cancer: Executive Summary from the American Society of Breast Surgeons."
In this new episode of Speaking of SurgOnc, Dr. Rick Greene discusses with Dr. Helen Johnson and Dr. Katrina Mitchell the management of patients with breast…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Point of Care Genetic Testing and Pitfalls to Avoid
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Dr. Doreen Agnese, Dr. Anna C Beck and Dr. Andrea Abbott will discuss different delivery models for genetic testing…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Hispanic Heritage Month: Innovative Clinical Trial Recruitment
On this episode of SurgOnc today, Dr. Rosalinda Alvarado and Dr. George Molina moderate a discussion on how to improve the recruitment of Hispanic/Latino…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Treatment of Extra Skeletal Ewing and Non-osseus Osteosarcoma
On this episode of SurgOnc Today, Mr. Myles Smith, Dr. Hari Deshpande, Dr. Alexandra Istl, & Dr. Danielle Cunningham will discuss the treatment of two rare…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Ethical Considerations of Implementing Peritoneal Surface Malignancy Regional Therapies
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, SSO Peritoneal Surface Malignancy Disease Site Working Group members Dr. Alissa Greenbaum and Dr. Omar Llaguna moderate a…
SurgOnc Today®Outside the OR: The Dean's List - Surgical Oncologists as Medical School Deans
In this episode, Dr. Russell Berman sits down with Dr. Sandra Wong, Dean of Emory University School of Medicine, and Dr. David Linehan, Dean of University of…
SurgOnc Today®ASO Article Series: Incidence of Adjacent Synchronous Ipsilateral Infiltrating Carcinoma and/or Ductal Carcinoma In Situ in Patients Diagnosed with Flat Epithelial Atypia by Core Needle Biopsy
In this new episode of Speaking of SurgOnc, Dr. Rick Greene discusses with Dr. Faina Nakhlis the upgrade rate to ductal carcinoma in situ or invasive cancer…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Palliation in Advanced Pancreas Cancer - Part 1: Gastric Outlet Obstruction
In this bite-sized episode of SurgOnc Today, Drs. Zhi Ven Fong and Adriana Gamboa discuss palliative techniques for the management of gastric outlet…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Breast Highlights of ASCO
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, we will discuss a few of the practice changing trials presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Evidence Today and Tomorrow – HAIP Therapy
In this series "Evidence Today and Tomorrow", the HPB disease site working group of the SSO explored current gaps in HPB surgical oncology, highlighting…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Lateral Lymph Nodes and Rectal Cancer
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Drs. Abhineet Uppal and Shirin Sabbaghian Hebert will discuss management considerations for the treatment of lateral pelvic…
SurgOnc Today®Outside the OR: Good Palliative Care = Good Surgical Care
In the premiere episode of Outside the OR, host Dr. Russell Berman sits down with surgical oncologists Dr. Bridget Fahy and Dr. EeeLN Buckarma for an…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Imaging for Breast Density
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Dr, Zahraa AlHilli is joined by Dr. Christine Klassen, Dr. Wendie Berg, and Dr. Jennifer Harvey discuss what it means when…
SurgOnc Today®ASO Article Series: The Landmark Series: The Future of Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Trials.
In this new episode of Speaking of SurgOnc, Dr. Rick Greene discusses with Dr. David Seo recent and ongoing high-impact clinical trials that analyze the…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Increasing Patient Diversity in Clinical Trials
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Drs. Oluwadamilola "Lola" Fayanju and Jose Trevino moderate a conversation with Drs. Ugwuji Maduekwe and Rebecca Snyder on…
SurgOnc Today®SOI Article Series: Multidisciplinary Management of Nonmetastatic Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer (T3-4N0M0)
Dr. Daniel Shapiro, Section Editor of the Urologic Oncology Editorial Board section of Surgical Oncology Insight, discusses with Dr. Marcelo Bigarella a review…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Ablative Therapy for Primary and Recurrent Thyroid Cancer
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Dr. Yinin Hu from the University of Maryland and Dr. Jennifer Kuo from the Columbia University Medical Center discuss current…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Evidence Today and Tomorrow – Hepatocellular Carcinoma
In this series "evidence today and tomorrow", the HPB disease site working group of the SSO explored current gaps in HPB surgical oncology, highlighting…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series—Colorectal Disease Site Working Group: 2025 ASCRS and SSAT Program Recap
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, the SSO Colorectal Disease Site Working Group will recap content from the 2025 American Society of Colorectal Surgeons…
SurgOnc Today®ASO Article Series: Optimizing Outcomes in Gallbladder Cancer: Identifying Predictors of Futile Up-Front Surgery in a Global Multi-Center Study
In this new episode of Speaking of SurgOnc, Dr. Rick Greene discusses with Dr. Eduardo Vega the identification of risk factors for futile surgery in…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Separating Gender from Breast, Prostate, Cervical, and Ovarian Cancers
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Dr. Chandler S. Cortina (he/him), Dr. Ash B. Alpert (they/them) and Dr. Elizabeth J. Cathcart-Rake (she/her) will discuss the…
SurgOnc Today®SOI Article Series: Minimally Invasive Training in Surgical Oncology: Current Status and Needs Assessment
In this episode of SurgOnc Today's Surgical Oncology Insight series, Dr. Mitchell Posner, Section Editor of the Education/Training Editorial Board section…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Fertility and Family Planning for Surgical Oncologists
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Dr. Katherine Poruk from Mayo Clinic Florida and Dr. Erika Rangel of Massachusetts General Hospital discuss fertility and…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Highlights of the ASBrS 2025 Meeting
In this episode of SurgOnc Today®, members of the Society of Surgical Oncology's Disease Site Working Group will discuss several presentations from the ASBrS…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: SSO 2025 HPB Best Papers Recap
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Dr. Miral Grandhi of Rutgers University and Dr. Neha Lad of Mount Sinai Medical Center—both members of the HPB Disease Site…
SurgOnc Today®ASO Article Series: Money Matters: The Effect of Income on Postsurgical Outcomes in Stage IA Non-small Cell Lung Cancer.
In this new episode of Speaking of SurgOnc, Dr. Rick Greene discusses with Dr. Pedro Dos Santos the results of a study that examined whether patients of the…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Navigating Goblet Cell Carcinoma Pathology, Prognosis, and Practice
In this podcast, Dr. Adam Khader (Richmond VA Medical Center & Assistant Professor at VCU School of Medicine) moderates a focused discussion with Dr. Jula…
SurgOnc Today®SOI Article Series: Starting a Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery Program from scratch: closing the gap in West Africa.
In this episode of SurgOnc Today's Surgical Oncology Insight series, Dr. Peter Kingham, Section Editor of the Global Oncology Editorial Board section…
SurgOnc Today®Education Series: Breast Track Highlights of SSO 2025
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Dr. Olga Kantor from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dr. Taiwo Adesoye from MD Anderson Cancer Center discuss the breast…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education: FDA Approval of Lifileucel
In this episode, Dr. Kimberly Brown from The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School moderates a discussion with Dr. Thuy Tran from the University of…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Invasive Lobular Carcinoma
In this episode, Dr. Anna Weiss from the University of Rochester moderates a discussion with Dr. Lola Fayanju at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Rita…
SurgOnc Today®SSO 2025 Recap: Hot Topics in Peritoneal Surface Malignancies
We're bringing the heat as Dr. Laura Enomoto, Dr. Melanie Ongchin and Dr. Alissa Greenbaum discuss key highlights and updates in Peritoneal Surface Malignancy…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Surgical Strategies in Stage IV Gastric Cancer: Navigating Complex Cases
Join us on SurgOnc Today as we delve into the complexities of surgical treatment for stage IV gastric cancer. This episode explores the latest strategies and…
SurgOnc Today®SSO Education Series: Vascular Leiomyosarcoma
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, we hear from three experts Drs. Rebecca Gladdy, Alessandro Gronchi, and Christina Roland in the work up, treatment and…
SurgOnc Today®ASO Series: Guideline-Concordant Surgical Care for Lobular Versus Ductal Inflammatory Breast Cancer
In this new episode of Speaking of SurgOnc, Dr. Rick Greene discusses with Dr. Aaron Bleznak the results of a comparison of guideline-concordant surgery, which…
SurgOnc Today®SOI Article Series: The language of palliative surgery: A scoping review
Dr. Bridget Fahey, Section Editor of the Palliative Oncology Editorial Board section of Surgical Oncology Insight, discusses with Dr. Kim Kopecky the results…
SurgOnc Today®Live at SSO 2025: Society of Surgical Oncology International Committee presents: the International Career Development Exchange Program
The International Career Development Exchange (ICDE) program provides support for up-and-coming, early career surgical oncologists with leadership potential to…
SurgOnc Today®Live at SSO 2025: What We Can Do Today to Ensure a Diverse Surgical Oncology Workforce for the Future
"Can they even call it that anymore?" Yes, we can because diversity is not a dirty word. It represents a healthy ecosystem. Diversity is better for forests…