Reply to G.B. Mann et al and S. Sorscher

Reshma Jagsi1, Kent A Griffith1, Eleanor E Harris1

  • 1Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Kent A. Griffith, MS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Eleanor E. Harris, MD, St Luke's University Health Network, Easton, PA; Jean L. Wright, MD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; Abram Recht, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Alphonse G. Taghian, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Lucille Lee, MD, Northwell, Lake Success, NY; Meena S. Moran, MD, Yale University, New Haven, CT; William Small Jr, MD, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL; Candice Johnstone, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; Asal Rahimi, MD, University of Texas, Southwestern, Dallas, TX; Gary Freedman, MD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Mahvish Muzaffar, MD, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; Bruce Haffty, MD, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ; Kathleen Horst, MD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Simon N. Powell, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Jody Sharp, BS, Michael Sabel, MD, and Anne Schott, MD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and Mahmoud El-Tamer, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.

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