Terry P. Mamounas, MD, MPH, FACS, discusses treatment options after neoadjuvant chemotherapy and how neoadjuvant chemotherapy influences axillary surgery.
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A planned 5-year trip in the United States coupled with a thirst for knowledge turned into a lifetime of surgical oncology accomplishments for Eleftherios “Terry” Mamounas, MD, MPH.
When neoadjuvant chemotherapy turns positive lymph nodes negative, 5-year survival outcomes are the same whether patients have regional nodal irradiation or not.