We report details of margin status and distance to margins in the present analysis, but would note that the evaluation of this feature and, in particularly, the measurement of distance to margins cannot be considered precise.
Despite this, both completeness of excision as a categorical variable and the distance to margins were found to be of independent significance in predicting for ipsilateral recurrence of disease, highlighting again the significance of this feature in clinical management of DCIS.
Local invasion, total number of lymph nodes retrieved, nodal stage, extramural vascular invasion, peritoneal involvement, distance of invasion beyond the muscularis propria, and in rectal cancers, circumferential resection margin involvement and distance to this margin were all validated as of prognostic significance within a population.
Our analysis confirmed the overriding role of the distance to field margin on weeds.
The relative importance of local management intensity and landscape heterogeneity varied depending on the distance to field margin, which can be attributed to spatial heterogeneity in management practices.
We used fish size and leap distance to the margin as indicative of fine-scale spawning migration routes following the river banks vs. midchannel.
Here, we analyzed the relative role of local management intensity and landscape heterogeneity according to the distance to field margin on four weed metrics (species richness, density, biomass and seed rain) and community composition in 257 fields (beet, maize, spring and winter rape fields) across Great Britain.
The problem with this approach is that it removes many important numbers such as tumor size, number of positive lymph nodes, distance to uninvolved margin, tumor grade and so on.
Uniform standards of surgical excision and pathological measurement of distance to surgical margins are required.
An absolute measurement of the distance to the margins in mm was available in 637 cases, from the original report or the histological review.
