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ASO Author Reflections: The Impacts of a Negative Sentinel Lymph Node on Quality of Life

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  1. Department of Cancer Surgery, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Sarah Banting BBiomed & David E. Gyorki MBBS, MD, FRACS

  2. Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Sarah Banting BBiomed

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ASO Author Reflections offer a brief invited commentary on the article, “Negative Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Patients with Melanoma: The Patient’s Perspective”. Ann Surg Oncol. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-019-07375-y.

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Banting, S., Gyorki, D.E. ASO Author Reflections: The Impacts of a Negative Sentinel Lymph Node on Quality of Life. Ann Surg Oncol 26 (Suppl 3), 651–652 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-019-07523-4

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