Annals of Surgical Oncology

Welcome to Speaking of SurgOnc, the podcast series that features outstanding contributions to the annals of surgical oncology and discusses with authors the impact of these scientific reports on the science of surgical oncology and the global care of the cancer patient.

I'm Rick Greene, your host for our series.

Welcome to Speaking of Surgeon.

Looking forward to our discussion.

I've been really excited to talk with you.

Now, we know that your wonderful manuscript in the Annals of Surgical Oncology dealt with Merkel cell tumors and obviously the role of sentinel node biopsy.

I wonder if first we could discuss maybe the epidemiology of Merkel cell carcinoma, maybe and compare it to other cutaneous malignancies that you deal with.

Yeah, so Merkel cell is definitely more rare than the melanoma and keratinocyte malignancies, squamous cell and basal cell.