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CHICAGO -- Adherence to national cancer treatment guidelines was associated with decreased local and regional recurrence, improved disease-free and overall survival, and decreased treatment-associated morbidity in a study of 327 clinically node-negative melanoma patients.
A review of cancer registry data at Rush North Shore Medical Center in Skokie, Ill., revealed that 72% of patients were treated in compliance with National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) recommendations for margins of excision, Dr. Jennifer Erickson Foster and her colleagues reported at a symposium sponsored by the Society of Surgical Oncology.
Appropriate lymph node staging and...
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