Abstract:
BACKGROUND:Surgery is the only curative treatment for primary cutaneous melanoma, therefore it is important to determine excision margins that minimise risk of local recurrence, distant recurrence and death. METHODS:MEDLINE, EMBASE and Cochrane CENTRAL were searched from 2009 to 2015. Inclusion criteria were: population/setting - patients with primary melanoma; comparison - narrow versus wide margins; outcomes - overall survival, melanoma-specific survival, recurrence-free survival, and loco-regional recurrence; design - randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Results were pooled using meta-analysis and data explored using likelihood Bayesian probability plots. RESULTS:Six RCTs with 4233 patients were included. Narrow margins were defined as 1 or 2 cm of clinically normal skin around the melanoma; wide margins as 3, 4 or 5 cm. Hazard ratios (HR) were as follows (HR>1 indicates wide margin better): overall survival 1.09 (95% CI 0.98-1.22; p=0.1); melanoma-specific survival 1.17 (CI 1.03-1.34; p=0.02); recurrence-free survival 1.08 (CI 0.97-1.20; p=0.2); loco-regional recurrence 1.10 (CI 0.96-1.26; p=0.2), with no evidence of heterogeneity between trials for any end point or within subgroup analyses. There was an 94% probability that overall survival was worse with a narrow margin and a 43% probability that it was more than 10% worse in proportional terms (i.e. HR>1.1). Probabilities that narrow margins were worse were 99%, 92% and 92% for melanoma-specific survival, recurrence-free survival and loco-regional recurrence respectively. CONCLUSIONS:Contrary to recommendations in several national guidelines that narrow margins are safe, this systematic review and meta-analysis provides evidence that a narrow margin may lead to a worse outcome than a wide margin.
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Cancer Treat Revjournal_title
Cancer treatment reviewsauthors
Wheatley K,Wilson JS,Gaunt P,Marsden JRdoi
10.1016/j.ctrv.2015.10.013subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2016-01-01 00:00:00pages
73-81eissn
0305-7372issn
1532-1967pii
S0305-7372(15)00199-1journal_volume
42pub_type
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title:Cancer treatment reviews
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journal_title:Cancer treatment reviews
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journal_title:Cancer treatment reviews
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