1. Honoring Walter Lawrence, Jr., MD: Society of surgical oncology president 1979–80

   • Glenn D. Steele Jr.

   Annual Heritage Presentation Pages: 519 - 523

2. Long-term complications of breast-conservation therapy: Can the incidence be reduced?

   • Samuel W. Beenken
   • Kirby I. Bland

   Editorial Pages: 524 - 525

3. Integrating surgery and radiotherapy to reduce toxicity while maintaining local control for breast cancer: A fine balance

   • Rinaa S. Punglia
   • Jay R. Harris

   Editorial Pages: 526 - 528

4. Lymphatic mapping of nodal micrometastasis in colon cancer: Putting the cart before the horse?

   • Anton J. Bilchik
   • Dean T. Nora

   Editorial Pages: 529 - 531

5. Preoperative chemoradiation for rectal cancer: “Apples & Pears, tables and chairs...”

   • Thomas K. Weber

   Editorial Pages: 532 - 534

6. Preoperative chemoradiation treatment strategies for localized sarcoma

   • Peter W. T. Pisters
   • Matthew T. Ballo
   • Shreyaskumar R. Patel

   Educational Review Pages: 535 - 542

7. Long-term complications associated with breast-conservation surgery and radiotherapy

   • Funda Meric
   • Thomas A. Buchholz
   • Kelly K. Hunt

   Original Articles Pages: 543 - 549

8. Validation of sentinel node mapping in patients with colon cancer

   • Juan C. Paramo
   • Janna Summerall
   • Thomas W. Mesko

   Original Articles Pages: 550 - 554

9. hMLH1 andhMSH2 gene mutation in Brazilian families with suspected hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer

   • Benedito Mauro Rossi
   • Ademar Lopes
   • Andrew J. G. Simpson

   Original Articles Pages: 555 - 561

10. Prognostic impact of lymphatic and/or blood vessel invasion in patients with node-negative advanced gastric cancer

    • Woo Jin Hyung
    • Jun Ho Lee
    • Sung Hoon Noh

    Original Articles Pages: 562 - 567

11. Chemoradiation instead of surgery to treat mid and low rectal tumors: Is it safe?

    • Wilson T. Nakagawa
    • Benedito M. Rossi
    • Ademar Lopes

    Original Articles Pages: 568 - 573

12. Placement of self-expanding metal stents for acute malignant large-bowel obstruction: A collective review

    • Christine E. Dauphine
    • Patrick Tan
    • Marvin L. Corman

    Original Articles Pages: 574 - 579

13. Genetic alterations in normal epithelium of colorectal cancer patients may be a useful indicator for subsequent metachronous tumor development

    • Minori Koshiji
    • Yasuhiro Yonekura
    • Kazuhiko Yoshioka

    Original Articles Pages: 580 - 586

14. Presence of the human leukocyte antigen class II geneDRB1*1101 predicts interferon γ levels and disease recurrence in melanoma patients

    • Jeffrey E. Lee
    • Joseph Abdalla
    • Merrick I. Ross

    Original Articles Pages: 587 - 593

15. Radiofrequency ablation of the porcine liver with complete hepatic vascular occlusion

    • C. K. Chang
    • Mary Pat Hendy
    • Richard E. Welling

    Original Articles Pages: 594 - 598

16. Intratumoral dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase messenger RNA level reflects tumor progression in human colorectal cancer

    • Yoshinori Shirota
    • Wataru Ichikawa
    • Kenichi Sugihara

    Original Articles Pages: 599 - 603

17. Abstracts reprinted from Journal of Clinical Oncology

    Abstract Pages: I - II