BACKGROUND: Patients receiving breast conservation therapy have a lifelong risk of local
recurrence. To minimize this risk, surgeons have explored various approaches to examining …

Inadequate surgical margins represent a high risk for adverse clinical outcome in breast-
conserving therapy (BCT) for early-stage breast cancer. The majority of studies report …

Background Breast surgeons have a wide variety of intraoperative techniques available to
help achieve low rates for positive margins of excision, with variable levels of evidence …

Clean surgical margins in breast‐conserving surgery (BCS) are essential for preventing
recurrence. Intraoperative pathologic diagnostic methods, such as frozen section analysis …

Background Breast-conserving surgery for palpable breast cancer is associated with tumour-
involved margins in up to 41% of cases and excessively large excision volumes. Ultrasound …

Background Multiple recent reports have documented significant variability of reoperation
rates after initial lumpectomy for breast cancer. To address this issue, a multidisciplinary …

Margin status is an important prognostic factor for local recurrence after partial mastectomy
for breast malignancy. Options for intraoperative evaluation of margin status include gross …

AIMS: To evaluate the efficacy of three methods of breast-conserving surgery (BCS) for
nonpalpable invasive breast cancer in obtaining adequate resection margins and volumes …

Approximately one quarter of patients undergoing breast conserving therapy for breast
cancer will require a second operation to achieve adequate clearance of the margins. A …

AIM: The aim of this study was to evaluate factors affecting the risk for reexcision following
breast-conserving surgery. Positive tumor margins are critical for local disease control …