Mary Dillhoff

BACKGROUND: The majority of HCC patients within Milan criteria, compete with cirrhosis patients with high MELD for liver transplantation based on an exceptional score which is the calculated MELD at registration, 28 after six months of waiting, 31 after 1 year and thereafter capped at 34 after one…

BACKGROUND: To address the persistent ethnoracial and socioeconomic disparities in access to quality surgical cancer care, it is imperative to rigorously understand the role of clinician-level factors including clinician-to-clinician connectedness…

BACKGROUND: To address the persistent ethnoracial and socioeconomic disparities in access to quality surgical cancer care, it is imperative to rigorously understand the role of clinician-level factors including clinician-to-clinician connectedness…

INTRODUCTION: Preoperative cholangitis (PC) is an important risk factor for postoperative morbidity among patients undergoing pancreatic surgery. We sought to characterize the impact of PC on surgical outcomes and healthcare costs…

Objectives: Neoadjuvant therapy (NT) is increasingly utilized prior to surgery for most gastrointestinal (GI) and hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) malignancies. However, chemotherapy and radiation therapy can cause significant symptoms and a high incidence of adverse events…