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