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ASO Author Reflections: A Negative Axillary Clinical Exam Adequately Identifies Clinically Node-Positive Patients who Downstage After NAC and are Candidates for SLNB

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  1. Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    Tracy-Ann Moo MD & Monica Morrow MD

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Dr. Monica Morrow has received speaking honoraria from Genomic Health and Roche.

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ASO Author Reflections is a brief invited commentary on the article, Is Clinical Exam of the Axilla Sufficient to Select Node-Positive Patients Who Downstage After NAC for SLNB? A Comparison of the Accuracy of Clinical Exam Versus MRI. Ann Surg Oncol. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-019-07867-x.

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Moo, TA., Morrow, M. ASO Author Reflections: A Negative Axillary Clinical Exam Adequately Identifies Clinically Node-Positive Patients who Downstage After NAC and are Candidates for SLNB. Ann Surg Oncol 26, 4244–4245 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-019-07890-y

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