Alex Lee, MD

Resident
Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa; Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, The Ottawa Hospital, Canada

General Surgery Resident at the University of British Columbia. Presenting on the impact of biopsy margins in melanoma on patient survival and residual disease in the wide excision specimen. The study was conducted in The Ottawa Hospital under the supervision of Dr. Carolyn Nessim, Surgical Oncology, University of Ottawa, Canada.

Poster(s):

• E319: The impact of a Regional Communities of Practice to improve quality of melanoma care: setting guidelines for preoperative diagnostic imaging in early stage melanoma

• E331: Are positive biopsy margins in melanoma significant? – A cohort study of micro- versus macroscopic margin status and their impact on residual disease and survival

• GP32: Are positive biopsy margins in melanoma significant? – A cohort study of micro- versus macroscopic margin status and their impact on residual disease and survival