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Is ALND required in all patient with clinically positive axillary nodes?

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Surgical Oncology · Duke University Medical Center

The role of surgical management of the axilla is clearly an area that is evolving, especially in light of effective systemic therapies for breast cancer and the lack of convincing evidence of a survival benefit. The potential functional morbidity associated with an axillary dissection is not small s...

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