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Is sentinel node status predictive of overall survival in patients with melanoma?

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boxed-textRoka F et al. (2005) Sentinel node status in melanoma patients is not predictive for overall survival upon multivariate analysis. Br J Cancer 92: 662–667

The pathological staging of sentinel lymph nodes in melanoma provides important prognostic information and might increase survival

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