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Positive Margins: The Challenge Continues for Breast Surgeons

Author: Lisa Jacobs

Published in: Annals of Surgical Oncology | Issue 5/2008

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As breast cancer treatment has progressed to offering breast preservation to the majority of patients, a new challenge has arisen. That challenge is adequate margins on the partial mastectomy specimen. The literature reports positive margins in 20–70% of patients, resulting in additional surgery. While the consequences of that additional surgery probably do not affect survival from breast cancer, they do potentially have an affect on cosmesis, wound infection risk, and the confidence that the patient has with the surgeon wondering “why didn’t you get it all?” …

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Title: Positive Margins: The Challenge Continues for Breast Surgeons
Author: Lisa Jacobs
Publication date: 01-05-2008
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Annals of Surgical Oncology / Issue 5/2008
Print ISSN: 1068-9265
Electronic ISSN: 1534-4681
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-007-9766-0

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