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Interventions for non-metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the skin: systematic review and pooled analysis of observational studies.

BMJ · 2013 · PMC3816607 · PMID 24191270

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might not be significantno p-value reported
Overlapping confidence intervals for average effect estimates for the different treatments suggested that apparent differences between treatments might not be significant.

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probably not significantno p-value reported
In our pooled analysis of external radiotherapy, average local recurrence was slightly higher than that seen after conventional surgical excision, although the differences were probably not significant owing to overlapping confidence intervals.

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