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Selected Publications and Scientific Presentations*

Through her involvement in global research on fluorescence-guided and oncoplastic surgery, Dr. Emy supports the development of specialized, compassionate breast cancer care for Filipino patients.

*Publications listed are for academic and informational purposes.

  • Flores, J.P., Cua- Delos Santos, E. (2025). Initial Experience on Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy with Methylene Blue and Indocyanine Green for Post neoadjuvant Early Stage Breast Cancer. Oral Presentation at the 4th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Flourescence Guided Surgery. Manila, Philippines.
  • Baloloy, M.I., Cua- Delos Santos, E. (2025). Combined Use of blue dye with Indocyanine Green dye for Lateral Intercostal Artery Perforator Flap for Breast Cancer Surgery. Surgical Video Presentation at the 4th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Flourescence Guided Surgery. Manila, Philippines.
  • Cureg, Y., Schallenberg, M., Cua- Delos Santos, E., Velasco, R. (2025). Endoscopic Nipple Sparing Mastectomy with Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy (Patent Blue and Indocyanine Green Dye). Oral Presentation at the 4th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Flourescence Guided Surgery. Manila, Philippines
  • Fabella, E., Cua- Delos Santos, E., Tacata, I., Puno- Gomez, M.I., Songco, J. A. P, Tan, J. S. (2025). Combined use of Patent Blue and Indocyanine Green Dye in Sentinel Lymph node biopsy technique (SLNB) for Subungal Melanoma. Oral Presentation at the 4th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Flourescence Guided Surgery. Manila, Philippines.
  • He, G., Chia, J.,Cua- Delos Santos, E., Chew, W., Koh, W, Ng, Q., Ow, S., Goh, S. (2025). “Supraclavicular Lymph Node Dissection in Breast Cancer with Synchronous Supraclavicular Metastasis: As systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis”. Cancers, 2025, 17(13), 2081. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/17/13/2081
  • Chua, M., Lee, A., Wong, H., Cua- De Los Santos, E., Sean, L., Sng, M., Qin, X., Goh, S. (2025). “Oncological outcomes following extreme oncoplastic breast conserving surgery (eOPBCS) for locally advanced breast cancer (LABC): A systematic review and meta-analysis”. The Breast, 2025, Vol 79, 103869  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.breast.2024.103869
  • Arcellana, A., Magnaye, F., Saliba, C., Capaya, S., Rivera, J., Sotalbo, D., Cua, E., Coronel, I and Li, R. (2021). “Multiple Challenges: An Unusual Case of an Adrenal mass with plurihormonal secretion of catecholamine and Cortisol in a Patient with several Neoplasms”. J of Endo, Vol. 5, Apr-May 2021, p A144 https://doi.org/10.1210/jendso/bvab048.291
  • Mendoza, M., Cua, E., Infante, L., Lucero, J., Imperio-Onglao, R., Villanueva, M., Lucero, M., Sacdalan, D., Ignacio, J. (2020). “Shared Decision-making at the cancer institute adult outpatient clinics of a tertiary hospital in the Philippines: A cross sectional study.” Annals of Oncology, November 2020. https://www.annalsofoncology.org/article/S0923-7534(20)42776-0/fulltext
  • Cua, E., Cabaluna, N., Kho, M., Dofitas, R., Bisquera, O., Espiritu, N., Uy, G., Macalindong, S., Valparaiso, A., Perez, C (2020). Utility of Indocyanine Green and methylene blue dye in Breast Cancer Patients in a low resource hospital. Oral Presentation at the 3rd Annual Japanese Society of Flourescence Guided Surgery. Oral Presentation at the Surgical Oncology Society of the Philippines 2021 Annual Convention.

  • Cua, E., and Valparaiso, A. (2020). Use of Indocyanine Green in sentinel lymph node biopsy for melanoma. Oral Presentation at the 3rd Annual Japanese Society of Flourescence Guided Surgery.

  • Imperial, R., Cua, E. and Bisquera, O. (2019). “Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma of the Breast: A case series”. For publication at the Philippine Journal of Surgical Specialties.

  • Cua, E., Joson, R., and Joson, R. (2019). “Occult Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Presenting with Bilateral Paratracheal Neck Masses – A Case Report and a Diagnostic Challenge”

  • Cua, E., Bautista, E., Lapitan, MC, and Macalino, J. (2018). “Institutional factors affecting outcomes of postoperative abdominal and retroperitoneal surgeries in the surgical intensive care unit.”

  • Cua, E., and Macalino, J. (2016). “Thoracic Impalement Injuries in the Philippine General Hospital”. Oral presentation during the 34th Japanese Association for Chest Surgery Annual Meeting (2017, Japan). Oral presentation during the 25th SWAN Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Conference (2017, Australia). Oral Presentaion at the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Society of Asia (2017, Australia). Oral Presentation Region XVI annual meeting of Advanced Trauma and Life Support (2017, Manila). 
  • Cua, E., Concepcion, S., Saguil, E., Valera, E., and Javier, J. (2015). “A case report on a pyopagus tetrapus heteropagus twinning”.
  • Capili, F., Cua, E., and Danguilan J.L. (2015). “Profile and Outcome of Patients with Castleman’s Disease in the Lung Center of the Philippines from January 1, 2013 to November 30, 2015”. Poster presentation during the 33rd Japanese Association for Chest Surgery Annual Meeting (2016, Japan).
  • Capili, F., Cua, E., and Danguilan J.L.(2015). “Profile and Outcome of Patients with Giant Pulmonary Bulla in the Lung Center of the Philippines from January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2015”. Published in the Annals of the Philippine Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular (2014, Philippines). Oral presentation during the Annual Philippine Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon’s Getz Scientific Research Forum (December 2013, Philippines). Oral presentation during the 24th Annual Congress of the Association of the Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia (November 2014, Vietnam). Oral presentation during the 33rd Japanese Association for Chest Surgery Annual Meeting (2016, Japan).
  • Fullante, E., Danguilan J.L., and Cua, E. (2014). “A case of a pediatric patient with large posterior mediastinum neuroganglioma resected through video-assisted thoracic surgery”. Video presentation in the 32nd Asian Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Convention (April 2014, Turkey).
  • Cua, E., Danguilan J.L., and Angangco-Danguilan, R. (2013). “Outcome of Adult Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease Stage V with Uremic Pericardial Effusion in the National Kidney and Transplant Institute from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2011”. Oral presentation during the 12th Interns’ Research Forum in the UP College of Medicine (April 25, 2013, Philippines). Poster presentation in the 32nd Asian Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Convention (April 2014, Turkey).

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