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Eddy C Hsueh, MD Professor of Surgery, Chief, Division of General Surgery, St Louis University School of Medicine

Eddy C Hsueh, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Association for Cancer Research, American College of Surgeons, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Association for Academic Surgery, Society of Surgical Oncology, Society of University Surgeons

Disclosure: Serve(d) as a speaker or a member of a speakers bureau for: Amgen, Inc; Castle Biosciences, Inc.

Mark E McMellen, MD Resident Physician, Department of Surgery, St Louis University School of Medicine

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Vikram Kate, MBBS, PhD, MS, FACS, FACG, FRCS, FRCS(Edin), FRCS(Glasg), FIMSA, FFST(Ed), MAMS, MASCRS Professor of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery and Senior Consultant Surgeon, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), India

Vikram Kate, MBBS, PhD, MS, FACS, FACG, FRCS, FRCS(Edin), FRCS(Glasg), FIMSA, FFST(Ed), MAMS, MASCRS is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Gastroenterology, American College of Surgeons, American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, Fellow of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers (RCSEd), Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

The Chief Editor would like to acknowledge the assistance of Dr Gurushankari Balakrishnan, Surgical Oncology Resident, Cancer Institute (WIA), Adyar, Chennai, India, in updating the review of this article.

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