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Charles M. Balch
Researcher at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Publications - 398
Citations - 58865
Charles M. Balch is an academic researcher from University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Melanoma & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 96, co-authored 386 publications receiving 54627 citations. Previous affiliations of Charles M. Balch include American Society of Clinical Oncology & American College of Surgeons.
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AJCC Cancer Staging Manual
Mahul B. Amin,Stephen B. Edge,Frederick L. Greene,David R. Byrd,Robert K. Brookland,Mary Kay Washington,Jeffrey E. Gershenwald,Carolyn C. Compton,Kenneth R. Hess,Daniel C. Sullivan,J. Milburn Jessup,James D. Brierley,Lauri E. Gaspar,Richard L. Schilsky,Charles M. Balch,David P. Winchester,Elliot A. Asare,Martin Madera,Donna M. Gress,Laura R. Meyer +19 more
TL;DR: Purposes and Principles of Cancer Staging and End-Results Reporting are explained.
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Final Version of 2009 AJCC Melanoma Staging and Classification
Charles M. Balch,Jeffrey E. Gershenwald,Seng-Jaw Soong,John F. Thompson,Michael B. Atkins,David R. Byrd,Antonio C. Buzaid,Alistair J. Cochran,Daniel G. Coit,Shouluan Ding,Alexander M.M. Eggermont,Keith T. Flaherty,Phyllis A. Gimotty,John M. Kirkwood,Kelly M. McMasters,Martin C. Mihm,Donald L. Morton,Merrick I. Ross,Arthur J. Sober,Vernon K. Sondak +19 more
TL;DR: Revised melanoma staging system has been made that reflect the improved understanding of this disease and will be formally incorporated into the seventh edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual and implemented by early 2010.
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Final Version of the American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging System for Cutaneous Melanoma
Charles M. Balch,Antonio C. Buzaid,Seng Jaw Soong,Michael B. Atkins,Natale Cascinelli,Daniel G. Coit,Irvin D. Fleming,Jeffrey E. Gershenwald,Alan Houghton,John M. Kirkwood,Kelly M. McMasters,Martin F. Mihm,Donald L. Morton,Douglas S. Reintgen,M. I. Ross,Arthur J. Sober,John A. Thompson,John F. Thompson +17 more
TL;DR: This revision of the staging system for cutaneous melanoma will become official with publication of the sixth edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual in the year 2002.
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Prognostic Factors Analysis of 17,600 Melanoma Patients: Validation of the American Joint Committee on Cancer Melanoma Staging System
Charles M. Balch,Seng Jaw Soong,Jeffrey E. Gershenwald,John F. Thompson,Douglas S. Reintgen,Natale Cascinelli,Marshall M. Urist,Kelly M. McMasters,M. I. Ross,John M. Kirkwood,Michael B. Atkins,John A. Thompson,Daniel G. Coit,David R. Byrd,Renee A. Desmond,Yuting Zhang,Ping-Yu Liu,Gary H. Lyman,Aberto Morabito +18 more
TL;DR: The proposed tumor-node-metastases categories and stage groupings for cutaneous melanoma patients were validated and incorporated into the AJCC melanoma staging as described in the companion publication.
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Burnout and medical errors among American surgeons.
Tait D. Shanafelt,Charles M. Balch,Gerald Bechamps,Thomas R Russell,Lotte N. Dyrbye,Daniel Satele,Paul Collicott,Paul J. Novotny,Jeff A. Sloan,Julie A. Freischlag,Julie A. Freischlag +10 more
TL;DR: Major medical errors reported by surgeons are strongly related to a surgeon's degree of burnout and their mental QOL, and Burnout and depression remained independent predictors of reporting a recent major medical error on multivariate analysis that controlled for other personal and professional factors.