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Table 3 The association between side surgical margins and lymph node status

From: The pattern of prognostic and risk indicators among women with breast cancer undergoing modified radical mastectomy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Margins positive

Lymph node status No. (%)

Positive

Negative

Total

Yes

17 (27.9 %)

3 (15.8 %)

20 (25 %)

No

44 (72.1 %)

16 (84.2 %)

60 (75 %)

Total

61 (100 %)

19 (100 %)

80 (100 %)

  1. Most of our patients with lymph node negative disease had negative surgical margins (side) (84.2 %) with only 15.8 % positive margins (P-value 0.000, highly statistically significant)