Elias et al. should be congratulated for emphasizing the need for a systematic planned approach to achieve a margin-negative (curative) resection.
Our patient received curative therapy (negative repeat cultures) for disseminated candidiasis (candidemia, candiduria, and empyema) with caspofungin and fluconazole of adequate duration.
A high expression of SPARC by peritumoral fibroblasts was described as a negative prognostic biomarker after curative surgery in patients with PAC [ 38].
Therefore, the major impetus of neoadjuvant CRT for pancreatic cancer is to increase the rate of curative margin-negative R0 resections, hereby resulting in improved survival.
To achieve better local control, neoadjuvant CRT has been suggested for preoperative tumour downsizing, to elevate the likelihood of curative, margin-negative R0 resection and to increase the OS rate.
We searched for patients with early-stage (UICC stage IA to IIB), node-negative NSCLC treated with curative surgery only diagnosed at the Institute for Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland and at the Institute for Pathology, University Bern, Switzerland between January 1988 and August 2008.
We prospectively enrolled a total of 44 patients to undergo RFA for the treatment of metachronous liver metastasis after curative margin-negative (R0) resection of the primary gastric adenocarcinoma.
Our data imply also the importance of negative margins of resection with curative intent.
This study was designed to determine the prognostic value of EGFR family expression in a population of lymph node-negative ESCC patients treated with curative resection.
This observation was even more pronounced in the clinically important subgroup of nodal-negative patients, potentially amenable for curative surgical treatment.
Medical records were reviewed from patients with node-negative breast cancer who underwent curative surgery at Seoul National University Hospital between Jan . 2000and Jun.
