Too much, too little, or just right? Tumor margins in women undergoing breast-conserving surgery.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Development and validation of a preoperative nomogram for predicting residual tumor risk in breast cancer patients undergoing excisional biopsy.Translational cancer research · 2025
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2. Evolving Trends in Surgical Management of Breast Cancer: An Analysis of 30 Years of Practice Changing Papers.Frontiers in oncology · 2021
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3. The lobar approach to breast ultrasound imaging and surgery.Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001) · 2015
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4. The impact of use of an intraoperative margin assessment device on re-excision rates.SpringerPlus · 2015
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Society of Surgical Oncology-American Society for Radiation Oncology consensus guideline on margins for breast-conserving surgery with whole-breast irradiation in stages I and II invasive breast cancer.2014

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

Abstract

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