Erschienen in:
24.02.2019 | Breast Oncology
Defining Why the Re-excision Rate Dropped
verfasst von:
Anees B. Chagpar, MD, MSc, MPH, MA, MBA, FRCSC, FACS
Erschienen in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
|
Ausgabe 5/2019
Einloggen, um Zugang zu erhalten
Excerpt
In this issue of
Annals of Surgical Oncology, Havel et al.
1 report the first meta-analysis documenting the presumed impact of the SSO-ASTRO margin guideline on rates of re-excision. The work, encompassing two national studies, as well as five institutional ones, documents what would be the logical outcome—that when one changes the definition of what is a positive margin requiring re-excision to become more narrow, the re-excision rates decline.
2‐
8 …