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
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 multidisciplinary treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, as reported in the article, "The Landmark Series: The Future of Pancreatic Cancer 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 the importance of patient diversity in clinical trials as they also provide systemic, investigator-led, and patient-level strategies to facilitate enrollment of diverse trial participants.
Dr. Daniel Shapiro, Section Editor of the Urologic Oncology Editorial Board section of Surgical Oncology Insight, discusses with Dr. Marcelo Bigarella a review of the treatment options for patients with locally advanced prostate cancer. Dr. Bigarella is the author of “Multidisciplinary management of nonmetastatic locally advanced prostate cancer (T3-4N0M0),” published in the June 2025 issue of the journal.
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 evidence, best practices, and future directions for percutaneous ablative therapy for thyroid cancer.
In this series “evidence today and tomorrow”, the HPB disease site working group of the SSO explored current gaps in HPB surgical oncology, highlighting existing evidence and ongoing work aimed at filling those gaps. In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Dr. Julie Hallet from the Unviersity of Toronto and chair of the SSO HPB Disease Site Working Group, and Dr. Winnie Lo from Eastern Virginia Medical School are joined by Dr. Adam Yopp ...
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, the SSO Colorectal Disease Site Working Group will recap content from the 2025 American Society of Colorectal Surgeons (ASCARS) and Society of Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT) programs. Broad highlights of both benign and malignant disease conditions are covered. This episode is hosted by Dr. Jennifer Miller-Ocuin, Dr. Jitesh Patel, Dr. Abhineet Uppal, and Dr. Prakash Pandalai. They cover hot...
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 gallbladder cancer and the development of a predictive model to guide clinicians in selecting patients most likely to benefit from surgery, as reported in the article, "Optimizing Outcomes in Gallbladder Cancer: Identifying Predictors of Futile Up-Front Surgery in a Global Multi-center...
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 clinical significance of providing gender-inclusive cancer care for sex-organ specific cancers.
In this episode of SurgOnc Today's Surgical Oncology Insight series, Dr. Mitchell Posner, Section Editor of the Education/Training Editorial Board section, discusses with Dr. Melissa Hogg the current state of robotic training in surgical oncology and directions for future research and practice, as reported in her article, "Minimally invasive training in surgical oncology: Current status and needs assessment....
In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Dr. Katherine Poruk from Mayo Clinic Florida and Dr. Erika Rangel of Massachusetts General Hospital discuss fertility and family planning for surgeons. Together, they explore how surgical culture impacts childbearing decisions, the risks of infertility and pregnancy complications, and the systemic changes needed to support surgeons with or without children.
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 2025 meeting that have significant implications for current practice or are potential inflection points for breast surgical oncologists in the future.
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 Working Group—provide a curated summary of the most impactful hepato-pancreato-biliary malignancy papers presented at the Society of Surgical Oncology’s 2025 Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida. The discussion is moderated by Dr. Patricio Polanco of UT Southwestern Medical Center...
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 lowest income quartile with stage IA NSCLC experience worse survival after resection when compared to higher-income patients, as well as other identified survival disparities, as reported in as reported in the article article, "Money Matters: The Effect of Income on Postsurgica...
In this podcast, Dr. Adam Khader (Richmond VA Medical Center & Assistant Professor at VCU School of Medicine) moderates a focused discussion with Dr. Jula Veerapong (UC San Diego Health) and Dr. Zachary Brown (NYU Langone Medical Center) on the clinical assessment and treatment of goblet cell carcinoma (GCC). The panel explores how evolving pathologic classifications impact management, the role of staging, and treatment considerati...
In this episode of SurgOnc Today's Surgical Oncology Insight series, Dr. Peter Kingham, Section Editor of the Global Oncology Editorial Board section, discusses with Dr. Olusegun Alatise the the landscape of hepato-pancreato-biliary disease in West Africa and the available infrastructure to mitigate it, as reported in his article, "Starting a Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary surgery program from scratch: Closing the gap in West Africa."
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 track highlights of the SSO 2025 Annual Meeting, focusing on a few potentially practice changing trials presented at the meeting. In case you missed the meeting, be sure to check out the On Demand content, now available at https://learn.surgonc.org/.
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 California Irvine about the FDA approval of Lifileucel.
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 Mukhtar at UCSF and Laurie B. Hutcheson from The Lobular Breast Cancer Alliance about surgical management of invasive lobular carcinoma. This histological subtype poses challenges for systemic management and is often underrepresented on con...
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 and HIPEC presented at the 2025 SSO Annual Meeting. This episode explores evolving evidence, multidisciplinary approaches, and clinical trials shaping the future of care in this complex disease space
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 considerations for patients with advance disease including patients with positive peritoneal cytology, peritoneal carcinomatosis, liver metastasis and para-aortic nodal disease. We discuss the evolving role of surgery in improving outcomes for these patients. In this episode o...
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