Author(s): breastcancer.org

Date Authored: March 1, 2010

Explanation of margins of resection, including definition of positive, negative and close margins.

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Adapted and translated with permission from breastcancer.org, and funding from Avon and Lance Armstrong Foundations.

surgeon and assistant in the OR
Photo by Lance Cpl. Mark Fikey (cc license).