Great Article

[bubbasmomma]

My struggle was with making the decision to go with partial lymph node dissection or watch and wait. I found this article after making my decision, but felt that some of the panel would have agreed with my decision. I feel that the answers to the last question, “Should SLNB plus completion lymphadenectomy of biopsy-positive patients be the standard of care in melanoma in the United States?” help those of us dealing with this understand why we are so confused- the opinions among the experts vary greatly!

http://www.generalsurgerynews.com/ViewArticle.aspx?d=Expert%2BEditorial%2BForums&d_id=67&i=October+2012&i_id=891&a_id=21964

[Catherine Poole]

We will know more when the phase III study comparing the two is completed. Btw, looks like it is still recruiting: NCT00297895 http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT00297895?show_locs=Y#locn

67 locations. Can’t wait to see the results.

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