Abstract:Conservative surgery is the actual gold standard for the management of low-stages (i.e. I and II) breast cancers. The completion of clear margins is a prerequisite for a complete local treatment and a decrease of local recurrences. A tight collaboration between pathologists and surgeons is mandatory. There is no consensus for the definition of the cut of a clear margin. Different management processes have been reported through the literature, ranging from gross management to cytologic or histopathologic method… Show more
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