Three abstracts from the Duke Department of Surgery have been accepted for the 18th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Breast Surgeons. General Surgery Residents Cecilia Ong, MD, and Whitney Lane, MD, and Breast Surgery Fellow Tristen Park, MD, will present their findings at the meeting April 26–30 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The abstracts will be published online in the Annals of Surgical Oncology, with the possibility of the full manuscripts published in October.
- Cecilia Ong. Patient age and Tumor Subtype Predicts Application of ACOSOG Z0011. American Society of Breast Surgeons. April 2017. Las Vegas, NV.
- Whitney Lane. Surgical Resection of the Primary Tumor in Women with Stage IV Breast Cancer: Contemporary Practice Patterns and Survival Analysis. American Society of Breast Surgeons. April 2017. Las Vegas, NV.
- Tristen Park. The impact of axillary surgery on survival in women with N2-N3 invasive breast cancer. American Society of Breast Surgeons. April 2017. Las Vegas, NV.