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ArticleSouth Asian journal of cancer

Practical consensus recommendations for tumor margins and breast conservative surgery.

R Sarin, S P Somsekhar, R Kumar, Gupta Pawan, Jain Sumeet, Jindal Pramoj, Zamre Vaishali, Pasha Firoz, P M Parikh, S Aggarwal and 1 more

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Article in South Asian journal of cancer. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

R SarinDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Apollo Indraprastha Hospital, New Delhi, India.
S P SomsekharDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Manipal Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
R KumarDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Gupta PawanDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Jaypee Hospital, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Jain SumeetDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Fortis Hospital, Mohali, Punjab, India.
Jindal PramojDepartment of Surgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Zamre VaishaliDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Max Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Pasha FirozDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Apollo Indraprastha Hospital, New Delhi, India.
P M ParikhDepartment of Oncology, Shalby Cancer and Research Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
S AggarwalDepartment of Medical Oncology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India.
R KoulDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

My suggestion: There is no difference in survival of breast cancer patients treated with either mastectomy or with breast conservation therapy combined with external beam radiotherapy. A positive margin (s) is an important factor contributing to the increased risk of local recurrence. However, in published literature, there is a lack of consensus on the definition of acceptable margin (s). As a result decision process about need for re-excision after positive margins remains uncrear.

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Acceptable marginextensive intraductal componentnodal metastasisoriginal sizere-excisionresection

Identifiers

PMID29721467
PMCPMC5909299

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