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Margins! Margins. Margins? How Important Is Margin Status in Breast-Preserving Therapy?

Author(s) -

Jürgen Dunst,

Kathrin Dellas

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

breast care

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.767

H-Index - 30

eISSN - 1661-3805

pISSN - 1661-3791

DOI - 10.1159/000333145

Subject(s) - medicine , margin (machine learning) , radiation therapy , adjuvant radiotherapy , adjuvant therapy , breast conserving surgery , primary treatment , oncology , adjuvant , surgery , breast cancer , mastectomy , chemotherapy , cancer , machine learning , computer science

Margin status is surely a prognostic factor in patients undergoing breast-conserving therapy, but its impact is probably overestimated in case of adequate adjuvant radiotherapy. Radiotherapy improves local control after excision of the primary tumor in all subgroups of patients. There is, in contrast, no evidence that a certain margin width or a re-resection improves local control.

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