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B. Mark Smithers
Researcher at University of Queensland
Publications - 134
Citations - 9316
B. Mark Smithers is an academic researcher from University of Queensland. The author has contributed to research in topics: Melanoma & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 112 publications receiving 7853 citations. Previous affiliations of B. Mark Smithers include QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute & Princess Alexandra Hospital.
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Survival after neoadjuvant chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy for resectable oesophageal carcinoma: an updated meta-analysis
Katrin Marie Sjoquist,Bryan Burmeister,B. Mark Smithers,B. Mark Smithers,John Zalcberg,R. John Simes,Andrew Barbour,Andrew Barbour,Val Gebski +8 more
TL;DR: This updated meta-analysis provides strong evidence for a survival benefit of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy or chemotherapy over surgery alone in patients with oesophageal carcinoma and investigates treatment effects by tumour histology and relations between risk (survival after surgery alone) and effect size.
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Survival benefits from neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy or chemotherapy in oesophageal carcinoma: a meta-analysis
TL;DR: A significant survival benefit was evident for preoperative chemoradiotherapy and, to a lesser extent, for chemotherapy in patients with adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus and the findings provide an evidence-based framework for the use of neoadjuvant treatment in management decisions.
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Completion Dissection or Observation for Sentinel-Node Metastasis in Melanoma
Mark B. Faries,John F. Thompson,Alistair J. Cochran,Robert H.I. Andtbacka,Nicola Mozzillo,Jonathan S. Zager,Tiina Jahkola,Tawnya L. Bowles,Alessandro Testori,Peter D. Beitsch,Harald J. Hoekstra,Marc Moncrieff,Christian Ingvar,Michel W.J.M. Wouters,Michael S. Sabel,Edward A. Levine,Doreen M. Agnese,Michael A. Henderson,Reinhard Dummer,Carlo Riccardo Rossi,Rogerio I. Neves,Steven D. Trocha,Frances C. Wright,David R. Byrd,Maurice Matter,Eddy Hsueh,Alastair MacKenzie-Ross,Douglas B. Johnson,Patrick Terheyden,Adam C. Berger,Tara L. Huston,Jeffrey D. Wayne,B. Mark Smithers,Heather B. Neuman,Schlomo Schneebaum,Jeffrey E. Gershenwald,Charlotte E. Ariyan,Darius C. Desai,Lisa K. Jacobs,Kelly M. McMasters,Anja Gesierich,Peter Hersey,Steven D. Bines,John M. Kane,Richard J. Barth,Gregory McKinnon,Jeffrey M. Farma,Erwin S. Schultz,Sergi Vidal-Sicart,Richard A. Hoefer,James M. Lewis,Randall P. Scheri,Mark C. Kelley,Omgo E. Nieweg,R. Dirk Noyes,Dave S.B. Hoon,He-Jing Wang,David Elashoff,Robert Elashoff +58 more
TL;DR: Immediate completion lymph‐node dissection increased the rate of regional disease control and provided prognostic information but did not increase melanoma‐specific survival among patients with melanoma and sentinel‐node metastases.
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Surgery alone versus chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery for resectable cancer of the oesophagus: a randomised controlled phase III trial.
Bryan Burmeister,B. Mark Smithers,Val Gebski,Lara Fitzgerald,R. John Simes,Peter G. Devitt,Stephen P. Ackland,David C. Gotley,David Joseph,Jeremy Millar,John B. North,Euan Walpole,James W. Denham +12 more
TL;DR: Preoperative chemoradiotherapy with cisplatin and fluorouracil does not significantly improve progression-free or overall survival for patients with resectable oesophageal cancer compared with surgery alone, and further assessment is warranted of the role of cheMoradiotherapy in patients with squamous-cell tumours.
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International consensus on standardization of data collection for complications associated with esophagectomy: Esophagectomy Complications Consensus Group (ECCG)
Donald E. Low,Derek Alderson,Ivan Cecconello,Andrew C. Chang,Gail Darling,Xavier Benoit D’Journo,S. Michael Griffin,Arnulf H. Hölscher,Wayne L. Hofstetter,Blair A. Jobe,Yuko Kitagawa,John C. Kucharczuk,Simon Law,Toni Lerut,Nick Maynard,M. Pera,Jeffrey H. Peters,C S Pramesh,John V. Reynolds,B. Mark Smithers,J. Jan B. van Lanschot +20 more
TL;DR: The proposed system for defining and recording perioperative complications associated with esophagectomy provides an infrastructure to standardize international data collection and facilitate future comparative studies and quality improvement projects.