Resources for Clinicians
Geriatric Learning Modules
These six online educational modules cover geriatric issues commonly experienced by older surgical oncology patients. Each module will take about 15 to 20 minutes and will cover introductory information topics including:
- Pharmacokinetics
- Hospital hazards
- Decision-making capacity
- Appropriate prescribing
- Delirium
- Pain management
These geriatric learning modules are available to the general public, but you must have an account with MD Anderson's Sakai education portal. Please read the enrollment instructions before trying to access the modules.
Recent Abstracts & Publications
Please email requests for PDF copies of publications to Linda McGraw at lgmcgraw@mdanderson.org.
Thyroid Cancer
Grubbs EG, Rich TA, Li G, Sturgis EM, Younes MN, Myers JN, Edeiken-Monroe B, Fornage BD, Monroe DP, Staerkel GA, Williams MD, Waguespack SG, Hu MI, Cote G, Gagel RF, Cohen J, Weber RS, Anaya DA, Holsinger FC, Perrier ND, Clayman GL, Evans DB. Recent advances in thyroid cancer. Curr Probl Surg 45:156-250, 2008.
Mittendorf EA, Wang X, Perrier ND, Francis AM, Edeiken BS, Shapiro SE, Lee JE, Evans DB. Followup of patients with papillary thyroid cancer: in search of the optimal algorithm. J Am Coll Surg 205:239-47, 2007.
Grubbs EG, Evans DB. Role of lymph node dissection in primary surgery for thyroid cancer. J Natl Compr Canc Netw 5:623-30, 2007.
Kouvaraki MA, Shapiro SE, Lee JE, Evans DB, Perrier ND. Surgical management of thyroid carcinoma. J Natl Compr Canc Netw 3:458-66, 2005.
Kouvaraki MA, Lee JE, Shapiro SE, Sherman SI, Evans DB. Preventable reoperations for persistent and recurrent papillary thyroid carcinoma. Surgery 136:1183-91, 2004.
Jimenez C, Dang GT, Schultz PN, El-Naggar A, Shapiro S, Barnes EA, Evans DB, Vassilopoulou-Sellin R, Gagel RF, Cote GJ, Hoff AO. A novel point mutation of the RET protooncogene involving the second intracellular tyrosine kinase domain in a family with medullary thyroid carcinoma. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 89:3521-6, 2004.
Jimenez C, Habra MA, Huang SC, El-Naggar A, Shapiro SE, Evans DB, Cote G, Gagel RF. Pheochromocytoma and medullary thyroid carcinoma: a new genotype-phenotype correlation of the RET protooncogene 891 germline mutation. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 89:4142-5, 2004.
Kouvaraki MA, Shapiro SE, Fornage BD, Ediken-Monro BS, Sherman SI, Vassilopoulou-Sellin R, Lee JE, Evans DB. Role of preoperative ultrasonography in the surgical management of patients with thyroid cancer. Surgery 134:946-54, 2003.
Sclabas GM, Staerkel GA, Shapiro SE, Fornage BD, Sherman SI, Sellin RV, Lee JE, Evans DB. Fine-needle aspiration of the thyroid: correlation with histopathology in a contemporary series of 240 patients. Am J Surg 186:702-10, 2003.
Yen TW, Shapiro SE, Gagel RF, Sherman SI, Lee JE, Evans DB. Medullary thyroid carcinoma: Results of a standardized surgical approach in a contemporary series of 80 consecutive patients. Surgery 134:890-901, 2003.
Royal RE, Delpassand ES, Shapiro SE, Fritsche HA, Vassilopoulou-Sellin R, Sherman SI, Gagel RF, Evans DB, Lee JE. Improving the yield of preoperative parathyroid localization: 99mTc-sestamibi imaging following thyroid suppression. Surgery 132:968-75, 2002.
Esnaola NF, Cantor SB, Sherman SI, Lee JE, Evans DB. Optimal Treatment Stategy in Patients with Papillary Thyroid Cancer: A Decision Analysis. Surgery 130:921-30, 2001.
Fleming J, Lee JE, Bouvet M, Schultz PN, Sherman SI, Sellin RV, Friend KE, Burgess MA, Cote GJ, Gagel RF, Evans DB. Surgical strategy for the treatment of medullary thyroid carcinoma. Ann Surg 230:697-707, 1999.
Evans DB, Fleming JB, Lee JE, Cote G, Gagel RF. The surgical treatment of medullary thyroid carcinoma. Semin Surg Oncol 16:50-63, 1999.
Evans DB, McMasters KM, Lee JE. Medullary Thyroid Cancer. Curr Surg 52:130-5, 1995.
Parathyroid Disease
Suliburk JW, Perrier ND. Primary hyperparathyroidism. Oncologist 12:644-53, 2007.
Perrier ND. Impact of 25 hydroxyvitamin D deficiency in perioperative parathyroid hormone kinetics and results in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. Surgery 142:1027-9, 2007.
Mittendorf EA, Wefel JS, Meyers CA, Doherty D, Shapiro SE, Lee JE, Evans DB, Perrier ND. Improvement of sleep disturbance and neurocognitive function after parathyroidectomy in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. Endocr Pract 13:338-44, 2007.
Rodgers SE, Hunter GJ, Hamberg LM, Schellingerhout D, Doherty DB, Ayers GD, Shapiro SE, Edeiken BS, Truong MT, Evans DB, Lee JE, Perrier ND. Improved preoperative planning for directed parathyroidectomy with 4-dimensional computed tomography. Surgery 140:932-41, 2006.
Kouvaraki MA, Greer M, Sharma S, Beery D, Armand R, Lee JE, Evans DB, Perrier ND. Indications for operative intervention in patients with asymptomatic primary hyperparathyroidism: practice patterns of endocrine surgery. Surgery 139:527-34, 2006.
Rodgers SE, Perrier ND. Parathyroid carcinoma. Curr Opin Oncol 18:16-22, 2006 .
Perrier ND. Asymptomatic hyperparathyroidism: a medical misnomer? Surgery 137:127-31, 2005.
Gayed IW, Kim EE, Boussard WF, Evans DB, Lee JE, Broemeling LD, Ochoa BB, Moxley DM, Erwin WD, Podoloff DA. The value of 99mTc-Sestamibi SPECT/CT over Conventional SPECT in the evaluation of Parathyroid Adenomas of Hyperpalasia. J Nucl Med 46:248-52, 2005.
Busaidy NL, Jimenez C, Habra MA, Schultz PN, El-Naggar AK, Clayman GL, Asper JA, Diaz EM Jr, Evans DB, Gagel RF, Garden A, Hoff AO, Lee JE, Morrison WH, Rosenthal DI, Sherman SI, Sturgis EM, Waguespack SG, Weber RS, Wirfel K, Vassilopoulou-Sellin R. Parathyroid carcinoma: a 22-year experience. Head Neck 26:716-26, 2004.
Pederson LC, Shapiro SE, Fritsche HA, Delpassand ES, Gagel RF, Sherman SI, Vassilopoulou-Sellin R, Evans DB, Lee JE. Maximizing parathyroid preservation in central neck surgery: potential role for intraoperative gamma probe identification of normal parathyroid glands. Am J Surg 186:711-7, 2003.
Grau AM, Evans DB, Hoff AO, Lee JE. Carcinoma of the parathyroid glands. In: Endocrine Surgery of the Head and Neck, Thomson Delmar Learning, Pellitteri PK and McCaffrey TV, ed. Clifton Park, New York, pp.429-40, 2002.
Dackiw APB, Sussman JJ, Fritsche HA, Delpassand ES, Stanford P, Hoff AO, Gagel RF, Evans DB, Lee JE. Relative contributions of Technetium Tc 99m sestamibi scintigraphy, intraoperative gamma probe detection and the rapid parathyroid hormone assay to the surgical management of hyperparathyroidism. Arch Surg 135:550-7, 2000.
Adrenal Tumors
Grubbs EG, Lee JE. Walz Aldosteronoma. World J Surg, In press, 2008.
Gonzalez RJ, Tamm EP, Ng C, Phan AT, Vassilopoulou-Sellin R, Perrier ND, Evans DB, Lee JE. Response to mitotane predicts outcome in patients with recurrent adrenal cortical carcinoma. Surgery 142:867-75, 2007.
Mittendorf EA, Evans DB, Lee JE, Perrier ND. Pheochromocytoma: advances in genetics, diagnosis, localization, and treatment. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am 21:509-25, 2007.
Rodgers SE, Evans DB, Lee JE, Perrier ND: Adrenocortical carcinoma. Surg Oncol Clin North Am 15:535-53, 2006.
Gonzalez RJ, Shapiro S, Sarlis N, Vassilopoulou-Sellin R, Perrier ND, Evans DB, Lee JE. Laparoscopic resection of adrenal cortical carcinoma: a cautionary note. Surgery 138:1078-85, 2005.
Yip L, Lee JE, Shapiro SE, Waguespack SG, Sherman SI, Hoff AO, Gagel RF, Arens JF, Evans DB. Surgical management of hereditary pheochromocytoma. J Am Coll Surg 198:525-35, 2004.
Pederson LC, Lee JE. Pheochromocytoma. Curr Treat Options Oncol 4:329-37, 2003.
Tada H, Lee JE. Adrenal Tumors. In: Handbook of Surgical Oncology, Third edition. Feig BW, Berger DH, Fuhrman G, eds. New York: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002.
Dackiw APB, Lee JE, Gagel RF, Evans DB. Adrenal cortical carcinoma. World J Surg 25:914-26, 2001.
Lenert JT, Barnett CC, Kudelka AP, Sellin RV, Gagel RF, Skibber JM, Ross MI, Pisters PWT, Curley SA, Evans DB, Lee JE. Evaluation and surgical resection of adrenal masses in patients with a history of extra-adrenal malignancy. Surgery 130:1060-7, 2001.
Barnett CC, Dackiw APB, Pearson AS, Varma DG, El-Naggar AK, Gagel RF, Evans DB, Lee JE. Limitations of size as a criterion in evaluating adrenal tumors. Surgery 128:973-82, 2000.
Bouvet M, Tyler DS, Lee JE. Adrenal Tumors. In: Handbook of Surgical Oncology. Feig BW, ed., Little Brown and Co., Second edition, Boston, pp. 295-312, 1999.
Lee JE, Evans DB, Hickey RC, Sherman SI, Gagel RF, Abbruzzese MC, Abbruzzese JL. Unknown primary cancer presenting as an adrenal mass: Implications for FNA of adrenal incidentalomas. Surgery 124:1115-22, 1998.
Fleming RYD, Evans DB, Lee, JE. Adrenal glands. In: Modern Surgical Care: Physiologic Foundations, Second Edition, Quality Medical Publishing, Inc., St. Louis, pp. 1144-64, 1998.
Lee JE, Curley SA, Evans DB, Gagel RF, Hickey RC. Cortical-sparing adrenalectomy for patients with bilateral pheochromocytoma. Surgery 120:1064-71, 1996.
Lee JE, Evans DB, Sherman, SI, Gagel RF. Evaluation of the incidental adrenal mass. Am J Med 103:249-50, 1996.
Lee JE, Berger DH, El-Naggar AK, Hickey RC, Sellin RV, Gagel RF, Burgess MA, Evans DB. Surgical management, DNA content and patient survival in adrenal cortical carcinoma. Surgery 118:1090-8, 1995.
Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia
Wray CJ, Rich TA, Waguespack SG, Lee JE, Perrier ND, Evans DB. Failure to recognize multiple endocrine neoplasia 2B: more common than we think? Ann Surg Oncol 15:293-301, 2008.
Kouvaraki MA, Shapiro SE, Perrier ND, Hoff AO, Sherman SI, Lee JE, Evans DB. RET proto-oncogene: a review and update of genotype-phenotype correlations in hereditary medullary thyroid cancer associated endocrine tumors. Thyroid 15:531-44, 2005.
Kouvaraki MA, Shapiro SE, Lee JE, Evans DB. Pancreatic endocrine neoplasms in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1. In: VonHoff DD, Evans DB, Hruban RH, eds. Pancreatic Cancer. Boston: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2005.
Lambert LA, Shapiro SE, Lee JE, Perrier ND, Truong M, Wallace MJ, Hoff AO, Gagel RF, Evans DB. Surgical treatment of hyperparathyroidism in patients with MEN1. Arch Surg 140:374-82, 2005.
Yip L, Cote GJ, Shapiro SE, Ayers GD, Herzog CE, Sellin RV, Sherman SI, Gagel RF, Lee JE, Evans DB. Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2: evaluation of the genotype-phenotype relationship. Arch Surg 138:409-16, 2003.
Wirfel KL, Evans DB, Lee JE, Goepfert H, Gagel RF. Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Syndromes. In: Challenging Cases in Endocrinology. Molitch ME, ed., Humana Press, pp. 391-404, 2002.
Kouvaraki MA, Lee JE, Shapiro SE, Gagel RF, Sherman SI, Sellin RV, Cote GJ, Evans DB. Genotype-Phenotype Analysis in Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1. Arch Surg 137:641-47, 2002.
Kikumori T, Evans D, Lee JE, Cote GJ, Gagel RF. Genetic abnormalities in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2. In: Surgical Endocrinology. Doherty GM, Skogseid B, eds. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 531-40, 2001.
Hoff AO, Cote GJ, Evans DB, Lee JE, Gagel RF. Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia. In: Textbook of Endocrinology. Pinchera A, ed. McGraw Hill Library, Milan, Italy, pp. 755-65, 2001.Dackiw APB, Cote GJ, Schultz PN, Stanford P, Sellin RV, Evans DB, Gagel RF, Lee JE. Screening for MEN 1 mutations in patients with atypical multiple endocrine neoplasia. Surgery 126:1097-103, 1999.
Cote GJ, Lee JE, Evans DB, Huang E, Schultz PN, Dang GT, Qiu H, Shefelbine S, Sellin RV, Gagel RF. Five novel mutations in the familial multiple endocrine neoplasia, type 1 (MEN 1) gene. Hum Mutat 12:219, 1998.
Evans DB, Lee JE, Merrell RC, Hickey RC. Adrenal Medullary Disease in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2: Appropriate Management. Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am 23:167-76, 1994.
Gagel RR, Evans DB, Lee JE. Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia. In: Endocrinology and Metabolism. Pinchera A, Bertagna X, Fischer J, Groop L, Schoemaker J, Serio M, Wass J, eds. London, England: McGraw-Hill International (UK) Ltd., pp. 755-65.
Endocrine Pancreas
Kouvaraki MA, Solorzano CC, Shapiro SE, Yao JC, Perrier ND, Lee JE, Evans DB. Surgical treatment of nonfunctioning pancreatic islet cell tumors. J Surg Oncol 89:170-85, 2005.
Brown RE, Scoggins CR, Tamm EP, Reyes AO, Lee JE. Intrapancreatic accessory spleen masquerading as pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor. Surg Rounds 27:310–15, 2004.
Solorzano CC, Lee JE, Pisters PWT, Vauthey J-N, Ayers GD, Jean M, Gagel RF, Afani JA, Wolff RA, Evans DB. Nonfunctioning islet cell carcinoma of the pancreas: Survival results in a contemporary series of 163 patients. Surgery 130:1078-85, 2001.
Lee JE, Evans DB. Advances in the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors. In: Advances in Surgical Oncology. Pollock RP, ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, pp. 227-38, 1997.
Evans DB, Skibber JM, Lee JE, Merrell RC, Hickey RC. Nonfunctioning islet cell carcinoma of the pancreas: natural history and surgical management. Surgery 114:1175-82, 1993.
General Review
Raut CP, Lee JE. Unusual functioning endocrine tumors. Curr Treat Options Oncol 5:327-34, 2004.
Shapiro SE, Cote GC, Lee JE, Gagel RF, Evans DB. The role of genetics in the surgical management of familial endocrinopathy syndromes. J Am Coll Surg 197:818-31, 2003.