Surgeon who led MSLT-II, showing that removing all lymph nodes after a positive sentinel node does not improve melanoma survival.
Mark Faries was principal investigator of MSLT-II, the randomised trial showing completion lymph node dissection after a positive sentinel node biopsy does not improve melanoma-specific survival, which ended routine completion dissection worldwide, and a senior investigator of MSLT-I with Donald Morton. He leads surgical aspects of neoadjuvant immunotherapy trials and the melanoma programme at the Angeles Clinic.
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