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Recommendation
Surgical margins – Indications for further surgery #1
Offer further surgery (re-excision or mastectomy, as appropriate) after breast-conserving surgery where invasive cancer and/or DCIS is present at the radial margins (as defined by tumour on ink, 0 mm).
Offer further surgery (re-excision or mastectomy, as appropriate) after breast-conserving surgery where invasive cancer and/or DCIS is present at the radial margins ('tumour on ink'; 0 mm)
How this guidance was developed
This recommendation was adopted from the NICE 2018 guidelines (UK). The source recommendation was based on a systematic review of the evidence conducted to September 2017 and used wording ('Offer') indicative of a strong recommendation (using GRADE methods) by the source guideline authors. The source recommendation was accepted with minor stylistic changes, but with no changes to the meaning or tone of the source recommendation.
Surgical margins – Indications for further surgery #1
Recommendation
Offer further surgery (re-excision or mastectomy, as appropriate) after breast-conserving surgery where invasive cancer and/or DCIS is present at the radial margins (as defined by tumour on ink, 0 mm).
Principles in action
Safe and quality care
This recommendation was adopted from the NICE 2018 guidelines (UK). The source recommendation was based on a systematic review of the evidence conducted to September 2017 and used wording ('Offer') indicative of a strong recommendation (using GRADE methods) by the source guideline authors. The source recommendation was accepted with minor stylistic changes, but with no changes to the meaning or tone of the source recommendation.