Wide Margin Excision Report for Patients Like You

What is Wide Margin Excision?

An example of Wide Margin Excision

A wide margin excision is usually performed when removing cancerous tissue that is close to the surface of the skin, such as in melanomas or breast cancer. Typically, a wide margin around the cancerous area is removed to be certain that all the affected tissue is extracted.

Reported Purpose & Perceived Effectiveness

Reasons and Perceived effectiveness
			Perceived Effectiveness
Purpose	# of patients	# of patients with evaluations	Major	Moderate	Slight	None	Can’t tell
Phyllodes Tumor	2	0

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe	0
Moderate	0
Mild	0
None	0

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Wide Margin Excision

Hospitalization	4	4

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Having Wide Margin Excision (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason	# Patients	Percentage of patients
Not indicated	2

See all 2 patients who’ve stopped having Wide Margin Excision