2016
Nomogram for Predicting Overall Survival and Salvage Abdominoperineal Resection for Patients with Anal Cancer
Tsikitis VL, Lu KC, Kim JS, Billingsley KG, Thomas CR, Herzig DO. Nomogram for Predicting Overall Survival and Salvage Abdominoperineal Resection for Patients with Anal Cancer. Diseases Of The Colon & Rectum 2016, 59: 1-7. PMID: 26651105, DOI: 10.1097/dcr.0000000000000507.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSalvage abdominoperineal resectionAbdominoperineal resectionOverall survivalAnal cancerSalvage surgeryNodal statusTumor sizeStratified Cox proportional hazards modelCox proportional hazards modelAnal cancer treatmentNational Cancer DatabaseRetrospective cohort studyAnal cancer patientsYear of diagnosisTNM clinical stagePredicting Overall SurvivalOverall survival modelProportional hazards modelLogistic regression modelsSphincter preservationChemoradiation therapyCohort studySurgery statusChemoradiotherapy treatmentClinical stage
2014
Nomogram for predicting overall and colostomy-free survival for patients with anal cancer.
Tsikitis V, Lu K, Kim J, Billingsley K, Thomas C, Herzig D. Nomogram for predicting overall and colostomy-free survival for patients with anal cancer. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2014, 32: 400-400. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2014.32.3_suppl.400.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchColostomy-free survivalNational Cancer DatabaseAnal cancerNodal statusTumor sizeStratified Cox proportional hazards modelCox proportional hazards modelPrimary end pointRadical surgical treatmentTNM clinical stageProportional hazards modelOutcome prediction toolLogistic regression modelsCancer ptsChemoradiotherapy approachSphincter preservationAbdominoperineal resectionFree survivalSurgical treatmentSurgery statusClinical stageTNM stageCancer DatabaseHazards modelEnd point
2010
Adjuvant therapy and survival after resection of pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Mayo S, Austin D, Sheppard B, Mori M, Shipley D, Billingsley K. Adjuvant therapy and survival after resection of pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Cancer 2010, 116: 2932-2940. PMID: 20336787, DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25082.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAdjuvant therapyPancreatic adenocarcinomaOverall survivalAdjuvant treatmentCox proportional hazards modelMedian overall survivalKaplan-Meier methodMedical record reviewPopulation-based cohortOngoing clinical trialsState Cancer RegistryProportional hazards modelPaucity of dataAdjuvant chemoradiationCurative intentR0 resectionMedian survivalPerformance statusComplete resectionRecord reviewCancer RegistryPathologic stageClinical trialsRegistry dataHazards model
2006
Outcome Following Surgical Therapy for Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors
Gupta M, Sheppard B, Corless C, MacDonell K, Blanke C, Billingsley K. Outcome Following Surgical Therapy for Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors. Journal Of Gastrointestinal Surgery 2006, 10: 1099-1105. PMID: 16966028, DOI: 10.1016/j.gassur.2006.05.014.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGastrointestinal stromal tumorsMultivisceral resectionStromal tumorsMetastatic diseaseSurgical resectionImatinib mesylateDuodenal gastrointestinal stromal tumorKIT-positive gastrointestinal stromal tumoursCox proportional hazards modelPercent of patientsComplete surgical resectionKaplan-Meier methodLog-rank analysisPresence of metastasesLimits of resectionProportional hazards modelMitotic indexHigh mitotic indexActuarial survivalPostoperative survivalIncomplete resectionSurgical therapyComplete resectionImproved survivalIndependent predictors