Research is the future: get involved

In 2013 The BMJ published a feature on the fashionable practice of sentinel node biopsy in people with malignant melanoma (doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8645 ). [...]an editorial in The BMJ confirms the view that sentinel node biopsy confers no survival advantage except perhaps in a small minority of patients (...

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Published in:BMJ (Online) 2015-12, Vol.351, p.h6525
Main Author: Godlee, Fiona
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biopsy
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Patients
Physicians
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Summary:In 2013 The BMJ published a feature on the fashionable practice of sentinel node biopsy in people with malignant melanoma (doi: 10.1136/bmj.e8645 ). [...]an editorial in The BMJ confirms the view that sentinel node biopsy confers no survival advantage except perhaps in a small minority of patients (doi: 10.1136/bmj.h5940 ). [...]we also ask whether, as the UK's National Institute of Health Research believes, clinicians' involvement in research is as important as treating patients (doi: 10.1136/bmj.h6329 ).
ISSN:0959-8138
1756-1833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.h6525