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SUBMITTER: Ng ET
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6950729 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ng Elvin T ET Ang Russell Z RZ Tran Bach X BX Ho Cyrus S CS Zhang Zhisong Z Tan Wanqiu W Bai Yu Y Zhang Min M Tam Wilson W WW Ho Roger C RC
International journal of environmental research and public health 20191206 24
<b>:</b> The purpose of our study was to carry out a meta-analysis of current literature to determine whether total mastectomy and breast-conserving surgery induce different outcomes in quality of life, based on the breast-cancer-specific module of the European Organizaation for Research and Treatment of Cancer core questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-BR23) used postoperatively. A systematic literature search of PubMed and EMBASE was conducted. Observational clinical studies that compared the quality of li ...[more]