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Impact of Close Margins on Oral Cancer Outcomes According to the Oral Subsite.

Head Neck · 2025 · PMC11907674 · PMID 39648885

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just outside significancep = 0.06so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)
For tongue cases, positive margins (0 mm), 1 mm to < 2 mm margins, 2 mm to < 3 mm margins, and 3 mm to < 4 mm margins, were all associated with significantly increased risk of LR compared to clear (≥ 5 mm) margins, while 0.1 mm to < 1 mm margins were just outside significance ( p = 0.06).

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