Publications by authors named "Britany Hollenquest"
Purpose: Cancer centers are increasingly affiliating with regional hospitals, creating hub-spoke models for care delivery. Patient perspectives on accessing surgical cancer care within these systems are not well understood. The study purpose was to understand patient perceptions of hub-spoke models of care delivery and how they influence decisions regarding where to seek surgical care for cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: Cutaneous malignant neoplasms are the most common subsequent neoplasm after blood or marrow transplant (BMT), but a full assessment among survivors is lacking.
Objective: To identify risk factors for subsequent cutaneous malignant neoplasms using the BMT Survivor Study (BMTSS).
Design, Setting, And Participants: This retrospective cohort study included patients who underwent transplant from 1974 to 2014 at City of Hope, University of Minnesota, or University of Alabama at Birmingham and survived 2 years or longer, as well as a comparison cohort of siblings.
Article Synopsis
- - The Second Multicenter Selective Lymphadenectomy Trial (MSLT-II) showed that for patients with sentinel lymph node positive melanoma, nodal surveillance and completion lymph node dissection (CLND) have similar melanoma-specific survival rates.
- - This study tracked 212 patients who underwent nodal surveillance from 2017 to 2023, finding a 29.7% recurrence rate at a median follow-up of 23 months, with older age and head/neck location linked to worse outcomes.
- - The results suggest that nodal surveillance continues to be a viable strategy for managing sentinel lymph node positive melanoma, aligning with findings from the MSLT-II clinical trials.