Imaging for early stage breast cancer
Margins
• Margin evaluation: probabilities not absolutes. • Patients with positive margins: more likely to have residual disease at or near the primary site than those with negative margins. • But – A positive margin does guarantee residual disease. – A negative margin does not preclude extensive residual disease.
Schnitt SJ
Boston Breast Symposium 2018
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