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Rosa F. Hwang, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Present Title & Affiliation

Primary Appointment

Associate Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Education & Training

Degree-Granting Education

1993 University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, MD, Medicine
1989 University of Maryland, College Park, MD, BS, Zoology and Psychology

Postgraduate Training

3/2001-9/2002 Research Fellowship, Cancer Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, Dr. Isaiah J. Fidler
7/2000-6/2003 Fellowship, Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, Dr. Raphael Pollock
7/1995-6/1997 Research Fellow, Gene Therapy Laboratories, The University of Southern California-Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, Dr. W. French Anderson
6/1993-6/2000 Resident, General Surgery, The University of Southern California-Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, Dr. Tom DeMeester

Board Certifications

2/2003 American Board of Surgery

Experience/Service

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 8/2004-8/2010
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology, Division of Surgery, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, 8/2003-7/2004

Administrative Appointments/Responsibilities

Residency Program Director, Department of Surgical Oncology, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 11/2008-present

Other Appointments/Responsibilities

Reviewer, Program Committee, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 5/2007
Committee Member, American Society of Breast Surgeons Publications Committee, Columbia, MD, 2007-2009

Institutional Committee Activities

Primary Member, Breast Tissue Oversight Committee, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 2010-2013
Member, Biospecimen Repository Advisory Committee (BRAC) - Pancreas Bank, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 2008-present
Member, Clinical Research Committee (CRC), The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 2008-2009
Voting Member, Clinical Effectiveness Committee, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 2007-2013
Organizing Committee Member, Breast Cancer Research Group Retreat, Triple Negative/Basal-Like Breast Cancers, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 2006
Director, Pancreas Satellite Tissue Bank, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 2005-present

Honors and Awards

2008 America's Top Oncologists, Consumer's Research Council of America
2008 Trainee Travel Award for Oral Abstract Presented at "The Chronic Pancreatitis to Pancreatic Cancer Continuum", American Pancreatic Association (Awardee-Armando Rivera, Ph.D.; Supervising Faculty-Rosa Hwang, M.D.
2006 Awardee, American Association for Cancer Research Minority Scholar Award in Cancer Research, American Association of Cancer Research
2006 Career Development Award, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT)
2006 Teaching Award, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center for Biomedical Engineering
2005 Teaching Award, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center for Biomedical Engineering
2002 Awardee, Research Fellowship, Method in Clinical Cancer Research Workshop, American Association for Cancer Research/American Society for Clinical Oncology
2001 Awardee, Research Fellowship, Molecular Biology and Clinical Oncology Workshop, American Association for Cancer Research/American Society for Clinical Oncology
1989 Phi Beta Kappa
1989 Phi Sigma Honor Society
1984 Maryland Distinguished Scholar

Professional Memberships

American Association for Cancer Research
Member, 2001-present
American Association for Cancer Research - Tumor Microenvironment Working Group, Philadelphia, PA
Member, 2008-present
American College of Surgeons
Fellow, 2008-present
Candidate Member, 2000-2008
American College of Surgeons Oncology Group
Member, 2006-present
American Pancreatic Association
Member, 2005-present
American Society of Breast Disease, Dallas, TX
Member, 2008-present
American Society of Clinical Oncology
Member, 2003-present
Association for Academic Surgery
Member, 2003-present
Harris County Medical Society, Houston, TX
Member, 2009-present
Pancreas Club
Member, 2002-present
Phi Beta Kappa
Member, 1989-present
Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
Member, 2006-present
Society of Graduate Surgeons of the Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Member, 2000-present
Society of Surgical Oncology
Member, 2000-present
South Texas Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Houston, TX
Member, 2008-present
Texas Medical Association, Austin, TX
Member, 2009-present
The American Society of Breast Surgeons
Member, 2007-present
The Association for Surgical Education, Springfield, IL
Member, 2008-present

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Original Research Articles
1. Krishnamurthy S, Lucci A, Hwang R, Kuerer H, Babiera G, Ames F, Feig B, Ross M, Singletary E, Hunt K. A prospective study comparing touch imprint cytology, frozen section analysis and rapid cytokeratin immunostain for intraoperative evaluation of axillary sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer. Cancer 115(7):1555-1562, 2009. PMID: 19195040.
2. Yi M, Meric-Bernstam F, Middleton LP, Arun BK, Bedrosian I, Babiera GV, Hwang RF, Kuerer HM, Yang W, Hunt KK. Predictors of contralateral breast cancer in patients with unilateral breast cancer undergoing contralateral prophylactic mastectomy. Cancer 115(5):962-971, 2009. e-Pub 1/2009. PMID: 19172584.
3. Ramachandran V, Arumugam T, Langley R, Hwang RF, Vivas-Mejia P, Sood AK, Lopez-Berestein G, Logsdon CD. The ADMR Receptor Mediates the Effects of Adrenomedullin on Pancreatic Cancer Cells and on Cells of the Tumor Microenvironment. PLoS One 4(10):e7502, 2009. PMID: 19847298.
4. Katz MH, Pisters PW, Evans DB, Sun CC, Lee JE, Fleming JB, Vauthey JN, Abdalla EK, Crane CH, Wolff RA, Varadhachary GR, Hwang RF. Borderline resectable pancreatic cancer: the importance of this emerging stage of disease. J Am Coll Surg 206(5):833-846, 2008. e-Pub 3/2008. PMID: 18471707.
5. Hwang RF, Moore T, Arumugam T, Ramachandran V, Amos KD, Rivera A, Ji B, Evans DB, Logsdon DB. Cancer-associated stromal fibroblasts promote pancreatic tumor progression. Cancer Res 68(3):918-926, 2008. PMCID: PMC2519173.
6. Khalifeh IB, Albarracin C, Diaz L, Symmans F, Edgerton M, Hwang R, Sneige N. Clinical, histopathologic, and immunohistochemical features of microglandular adenosis and transition into in situ and invasive carcinoma. Am J Surg Pathol 32(4):544-552, 2008. e-Pub 1/2008. PMID: 18300793.
7. Hwang R, Wang H, Lara A, Gomez H, Chang T, Sieffert N, Ram S, Zimmerman S, Lee JH, Pisters PWT, Tamm E, Abbruzzese JL, Evans DB. Development of an integrated biospecimen bank and multidisciplinary clinical database for pancreatic cancer. Ann Surg Oncol 15(5):1356-1366, 2008. PMID: 18256882.
8. Katz MH, Mortenson M, Wang H, Hwang R, Tamm EP, Staerkel G, Lee JH, Evans DB, Fleming JB. Diagnosis and management of cystic neoplasms of the pancreas: an evidence-based approach. J Am Coll Surg 207(1):106-120, 2008. e-Pub 4/2008. PMID: 18589369.
9. Liang J, Wang H, Rashid A, Tan T, Hwang R, Hamilton S, Abbruzzese J, Evans D, Wang H. Expression of MAP4K4 is associated with worse prognosis in patients with stage II pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Clin Cancer Research 14:7043-7049, 2008.
10. Yi M, Meric-Bernstam F, Ross MI, Akins J, Hwang R, Lucci A, Kuerer H, Babiera G, Gilcrease M, Hunt K. How many sentinel lymph nodes are enough during sentinel lymph node dissection for breast cancer? Cancer 113(1):30-37, 2008. e-Pub 5/2008. PMID: 18457326.
11. Yi M, Krishnamurthy S, Kuerer HM, Meric-Bernstam F, Bedrosian I, Ross MI, Ames FC, Lucci A, Hwang R, Hunt K. Role of primary tumor characteristics in predicting positive sentinel lymph nodes in ductal carcinoma in situ or microinvasive breast cancer. Am J Surg 196(1):81-87, 2008. e-Pub 4/2008. PMID: 18436181.
12. Katz MH, Hwang RF, Fleming JB, Evans JB. Tumor-node-metastasis staging of pancreatic adenocarcinoma. CA Cancer J Clin 58(2):111-125, 2008. e-Pub 2/2008. PMID: 18272835.
13. Ramachandran V, Arumugam T, Hwang RF, Greenson JK, Simeone DM, Logsdon CD. Adrenomedullin is expressed in pancreatic cancer and stimulates cell proliferation and invasion in an autocrine manner via the adrenomedullin receptor (ADMR). Cancer Res 67(6):2666-2675, 2007. PMID: 17363587.
14. Barush AC, Wang H, Staerkel GA, Evans DB, Hwang RF, Krishnamurthy S. Immunocytochemical study of the expression of mesothelin in fine-needle aspiration biopsy specimens of pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Diagn Cytopathol 35(3):143-147, 2007. PMID: 17304533.
15. Raut CP, Tseng JF, Sun CC, Cleary KR, Wang H, Wolff RA, Abbruzzese JF, Varadhachary G, Tamm EP, Crane CH, Gomez HF, Hwang RF, Vauthey JN, Abdalla EK, Lee JE, Pisters PWT, Evans DB. Impact of resection status on pattern of failure and survival after pancreaticoduodenectomy for pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Ann Surg 246(1):52-60, 2007. PMCID: PMC1899216.
16. Hwang RF, Gonzalez-Angulo AM, Yi M, Buchholz TA, Meric-Bernstam F, Kuerer HM, Babiera GV, Tereffe W, Liu DD, Hunt KK. Low local-regional failure rates in selected breast cancer patients with tumor-positive sentinel nodes who do not undergo completion axillary dissection. Cancer 110:723-730, 2007. PMID: 17587208.
17. Rosenkranz KM, Bedrosian I, Feng L, Hunt KK, Hartman K, Lucci A, Meric-Bernstam F, Kuerer HM, Singletary ES, Hwang R, Feig B, Ross M, Ames F, Babiera GV. Breast cancer in the very elderly: treatment patterns and complications in a tertiary cancer center. Am J Surg 192(4):541-544, 2006. PMID: 16978971.
18. Boughey JC, Ross MI, Babiera GV, Bedrosian I, Feig BW, Hwang RF, Kuerer HM, Hunt KK. Sentinel lymph node surgery in locally recurrent breast cancer. Clin Breast Cancer 7(3):248-253, 2006. PMID: 16942642.
19. Lambert LA, Ayers GD, Hwang RF, Hunt KK, Ross MI, Kuerer HM, Singletary SE, Babiera GV, Ames FC, Feig B, Lucci A, Krishnamurthy S, Meric-Bernstam F. Validation of a breast cancer nomogram for predicting nonsentinel lymph node metastases after a positive sentinel node biopsy. Ann Surg Oncol 13(3):310-320, 2006. e-Pub 2/2006. PMID: 16463073.
20. Garmy-Susini B, Jin H, Zhu Y, Sung RJ, Hwang R, Varner J. Integrin alpha4beta1-VCAM-1-mediated adhesion between endothelial and mural cells is required for blood vessel maturation. J Clin Invest 115(6):1542-1551, 2005. e-Pub 5/2005. PMCID: PMC1088016.
21. Solorzano CC, Hwang R, Baker CH, Bucana CD, Pisters PWT, Evans DB, Killion JJ, Fidler IJ. Administration of optimal biological dose and schedule of interferon alpha combined with gemcitabine induces apoptosis in tumor-associated endothelial cells and reduces growth of human pancreatic carcinoma implanted orthotopically in nude mice. Clin Cancer Res 9(5):1858-1867, 2003. PMID: 12738744.
22. Hwang R, Krishnamurthy S, Hunt K, Mirza N, Ames F, Feig B, Kuerer H, Singletary E, Akins J, Neely J, Ross M. Clinicopathologic factors predicting involvement of nonsentinel axillary nodes in women with breast cancer. Ann Surg Onc 10(3):248-254, 2003. PMID: 12679309.
23. Hwang RF, Hunt KK. Experimental approaches to treatment of soft tissue sarcoma. Surg Oncol Clin N Am 12(2):499-521, 2003. PMID: 12916466.
24. Hwang R, Yokoi, K, Bucana C, Tsan R, Killion J, Evans DB, Fidler IJ. Inhibition of platelet-derived growth factor reception phosphorylation by STI571 (Gleevec) reduces growth and metastasis of human pancreatic carcinoma in an orthotopic nude mouse model. Clin Cancer Res 9(17):6534-6544, 2003. PMID: 14695158.
25. Hwang RF, Gordon EM, Anderson WF, Parekh D. Gene therapy for primary and metastatic pancreatic cancer with intraperitoneal retroviral vector bearing the wild-type p53 gene. Surgery 124(2):143-150; discussion 150-151, 1998. PMID: 9706132.
26. Yang L, Hwang R, Chiang Y, Gordon EM, Anderson WF, Parekh D. Mechanisms for ganciclovir resistance in gastrointestinal tumor cells transduced with a retroviral vector containing the herpes simplex thymidine kinase gene. Clin Cancer Res 4(3):731-741, 1998. PMID: 9533543.
27. Yang L, Hwang R, Pandit L, Gordon EM, Anderson WF, Parekh D. Gene therapy of metastatic pancreas cancer with intraperitoneal injections of concentrated retroviral herpes simplex thymidine kinase vector supernatant and ganciclovir. Ann Surg 224(3):405-414; discussion 414-417, 1996. PMCID: PMC1235392.

Invited Articles
1. Hwang RF. Commentary on: Nomogram for the predicting of having four or more involved nodes for sentinel lymph node-positive breast cancer. Breast Diseases: A Year Book Quarterly 20(1):68, 2009.
2. Hwang R. Commentary on: Differences in sentinel lymph node pathology protocols lead to differences in surgical strategy in breast cancer patients. Ann Surg Oncol 2006; 13: 1466-1473. Breast Diseases: A Year Book Quarterly 18:382, 2007.
3. Hwang RF. Commentary on: Evaluation of a breast cancer nomogram for prediction of nonsentinel lymph node positivity. Eur J Surg Oncol 31:958-964, 2005. Breast Diseases: A Year Book Quarterly 17:380-381, 2007.
4. Hwang RF. Commentary on: The incidence and significance of micrometastases in lymph nodes of patients with ductal carcinoma in situ and T1a carcinoma of the breast. Eur J Surg Oncol 32:502-506, 2006. Breast Diseases: A Year Book Quarterly 18:80, 2007.
5. Hwang RF. Commentary on: The significance of one positive axillary node. Eur J Surg Oncol 32:139-142, 2006. Breast Diseases: A Year Book Quarterly 17:383-384, 2007.
6. Hwang RF, Evans DB. CA19-9 and CA 125 markers in the differential diagnosis of pancreatic mass lesions. Arch Surg 141:974, 2006.
7. Hwang RF. Commentary on: Primary tumor characteristics predict sentinel lymph node macrometastasis in breast cancer. Breast J 11:338-343, 2005. Breast Diseases: A Year Book Quarterly 17:174, 2006.
8. Hwang RF. Commentary on: Ratio on positive to total number of sentinel nodes predicts nonsentinel node status in breast cancer patients. Breast J 11:248-253, 2005. Breast Diseases: A Year Book Quarterly 17:74-75, 2006.
9. Hwang RF. Commentary on: The effect of sentinel node tumor burden on nonsentinel node status and recurrence rates in breast cancer. Ann Surg Oncol 12:705-711, 2005. Breast Diseases: A Year Book Quarterly 17:171, 2006.
10. Hwang RF. Commentary on: The impact of nonvisualization of sentinel nodes of lymphoscintigraphy in breast cancer. Ann Surg Oncol 7:1-6, 2005. Breast Diseases: A Year Book Quarterly 17:79, 2006.
11. Hwang R. Commentary on: Extracapsular extension of the sentinel lymph node metastasis: a predictor of nonsentinel node tumor burden. Ann Surg 2003; 237: 607-613. Breast Diseases: A Year Book Quarterly 15:66-67, 2004.
12. Hwang RF, Hunt K. Experimental approaches to soft tissue sarcoma. Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America 12(2):499-521, 2003. PMID: 12916466.

Abstracts
1. Hwang RF, Moore T, Ramachandran V, Arumugam R, Rivera A, Logsdon CD. Pancreatic cancer-associated fibroblasts promote angiogenesis in vitro and in vivo. Oral Presentation, 2009 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, San Francisco, CA, 1/2009.
2. Bose D, Tamm E, Liu J, Kesmodel S, Lee JH, Gomez H, Fleming J, Evans DB, Hwang R. Incidental cystic lesions of the pancrease: multidisciplinary management of 350 patients. Oral Presentation, 94th Annual Clinical Congress American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, CA, 2008.
3. Yi M, Meric-Bernstam F, Middleton LP, Arun BK, Bedrosian I, Babiera G, Hwang RF, Feig BW, Kuerer HM, Lucci A, Ross MI, Hunt KK. Predictors of contralateral breast cancer in patients with unilateral breast cancer. Poster Presentation, American Society of Breast Surgeons, New York City, NY, 2008.
4. Kong AL, Hunt KK, Yi M, Weatherspoon K, Bedrosian I, Tereffe W, Hwang R, Ross MI, Buchholz TA, Meric-Bernstam F. The impact of IMC nodal drainage on primary breast cancer outcome. Poster Presentation, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Chicago, IL, 2008.
5. Rivera A, Moore T, Ramachandran V, Arumugam T, Logsdon CD, Hwang R. Tumor-associated pancreatic stellate cells stimulate angiogenesis in vitro and in an orthotopic model of pancreatic cancer. Oral Presentation, American Pancreatic Association, Chicago, IL, 2008.
6. Hwang RF. An integrated biospecimen bank and multidisciplinary clinical database for pancreatic cancer, 2nd Annual Academic Surgical Congress, Oral Presentation, Phoenix, AZ, 2/2007.
7. Katz MH, Wolff RA, Pisters PW, Sun CC, Evans DB, Varadhachary GR, Fleming JB, Hwang RF. Borderline resectable pancreatic cancer: the importance of this emerging stage of disease. Southern Surgical Association Meeting, Oral Presentation, Hot Springs, VA. Southern Surgical Association, 2007.
8. Hwang RF, Moore T, Amos KD, Arumugam T, Ramachandran V, Logsdon C. Effect of pancreatic tumor-associated stellate cells on pancreatic tumor growth, metastasis and angiogenesis. Poster Presentation, In: Proceedings of the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2007 Apr 14-18; Los Angeles, CA; AACR: Abstract 562, 2007.
9. Yi M, Hunt KK, Meric-Bernstam F, Bedrosian I, Hwang R, Kuerer HM, Lucci A, Ross MI, Akins J, Babiera GV. Sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with multicentric invasive breast cancer. Poster Presentation, ASCO Breast Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2007.
10. Arumugam T, Hwang R, Moore T, Wang H, Brandt W, Westley B, Logsdon C. TFF1 is over expressed early in pancreatic cancer in response to cancer-stromal interactions and stimulates cancer cell invasiveness. Poster Presentation, In: Proceedings of the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2007 Apr 14-18; Los Angeles, CA; AACR: Abstract 2794, 2007.
11. Arumugam T, Hwang RF, Moore TT, Wang H, Brandt W, Westley BR, Logsdon C. TFF1 is overexpressed early in pancreatic cancer and stimulates cancer cell invasion and stromal cell growth and migration. Oral Presentation, International Society of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Philadelphia, PA, 2007.
12. Rosenkranz KM, Hartman K, Ghonimi E, Kuerer HM, Singletary SE, Hunt KK, Meric-Bernstam F, Lucci A, Hwang RF, Feig B, Ross MI, Ames F, Babiera GV. Breast cancer in the very elderly: treatment patterns in a comprehensive cancer center, American Society of Breast Surgeons, Poster Presentation, Baltimore, MD, 4/2006.
13. Killary AM, Frazier M, Lott S, Carter J, Stivers D, Chen J, Hwang RF, Abbruzzese J, Sens S. A functional genomic approach to biomarker discovery in pancreatic cancer, Presented as a Poster, NCI, Early Detection Research Network Steering Committee Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 3/2006.
14. Yi M, Meric-Bernstam F, Akins JS, Hwang RF, Lucci A, Babiera GV, Hunt KK. How many sentinel lymph nodes are enough during sentinel lymph node dissection for breast cancer?, 29th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, Poster Presentation, (Abstract # 2013). Breast Cancer Res Treat 100:S84, 2006.
15. Amos KD, Moore T, Arumugam T, Logsdon CD, Hwang RF. Pancreatic stellate cells promote malignant potential in pancreatic cancer, In: Proceedings of the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2006 Apr 1-5; Washington, DC: AACR: Abstract 1679, 2006.
16. Tereffe W, Buchholz TA, Oh JL, Perkins GH, Strom EA, Woodward WA, Yu TK, Hunt KK, Hwang RF. Radiotherapy targeting of regional nodes in sentinel lymph node-positive breast cancer patients who do not undergo axillary dissection, 29th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, Oral Presentation, (Abstract # 4086). Breast Cancer Res Treat 100:S200, 2006.
17. Boughey JC, Khakpour N, Meric-Bernstam F, Ross MI, Hwang RF, Babiera GV. The routine use of sentinel lymph node surgery in prophylactic mastectomy is not warranted. Ann Surg Oncol 13:P64, 2006.
18. Hwang R, Bucana C, Killion J, Evans D, Fidler IJ. Targeted therapy of human pancreatic cancer with STI571 (Gleevec) in an orthotopic nude mouse model. Ann Surg Onc 1:S23, 2003.
19. Hwang R, Bucana C, Killion J, Evans DB, Fidler IJ. Targeted therapy of human pancreatic cancer with RPR127963E, a novel inhibitor of platelet-derived growth factor receptor, in an orthotopic nude mouse model. J Am Coll Surgeons 195:S7, 2002.

Book Chapters
1. Logsdon C, Ji B, Hwang R. Novel Molecular Relationships Between Chronic Pancreatitis and Pancreatic Cancer. In: Handbook of Pancreatic Cancer. Ed(s) Neoptolemos J, Abbruzzese J, Buchler M, Urrutia R. Springer: New York, 285-315, 2009. PMID: 978-0-387-77497-8.
2. Hwang RF, Ross MI. Treatment Options and Surgical Techniques for Early-Stage Breast Cancer. In: Advanced Therapy in Surgical Oncology, 1. Ed(s) Pollock R, Curley S, Ross MI, Perrier ND. B.C. Decker: Hamilton, Ontario, 489-501, 2007.
3. Hwang RF, Grau AM, Spitz FR, Bouvet M, Fuhrman GM, Berger DH. Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma. In: The M. D. Anderson Surgical Oncology Handbook. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins: Philadelphia, PA, 367-390, 2006.
4. Amos KD, Hwang RF. Small-Bowel Malignancies and Carcinoid Tumors. In: The M. D. Anderson Surgical Oncology Handbook. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins: Philadelphia, PA, 241-260, 2006.
5. Hwang R, Roseman B. Metastatic Cancer of Unknown Primary Site. In: The M.D. Anderson Surgical Oncology Handbook. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 409-424, 2002.
6. Hwang R, Baril N, McGarvey M, Chiang M, Formenti S, Skinner K. Principles of Molecular Biology for Cancer Surgeons. In: Surgical Oncology: Multidisciplinary Approach to Difficult Problems. Oxford University Press, 1-43, 2002.
7. Hwang R, Robinson E, Cusack J, Tyler D. Small Bowel Malignancies and Carcinoid Tumors. In: The M.D. Anderson Surgical Oncology Handbook. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 193-214, 2002.

Last updated: 9/16/2010