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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Oncol.
Sec. Breast Cancer
Volume 14 - 2024 |
doi: 10.3389/fonc.2024.1393417
Breast and Axillary Marking in the Neoadjuvant Setting: Survey Results from Experts of the Brazilian Society of Mastology.
Provisionally accepted- 1 Breast Image Department, Brazilian Society of Mastology, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- 2 Redimama - Redimasto Breast Unit., Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- 3 Brazilian Society of Mastology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 4 Oncoclínicas - Salvador Brazil., Salvador, Brazil
- 5 UniCesumar, Maringá, Brazil
- 6 Brazilian Society Mastology, São Paulo, Brazil
- 7 Leblon Medical Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 8 Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- 9 Fortaleza General Hospital, Fortaleza, Brazil
- 10 Brazilian Society of Physiology, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- 11 Instituto do Câncer Oeste Paulista, Presidente Prudente, Brazil
- 12 Oncoclinicas Group, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- 13 São José do Rio Preto Medical School, São José do Rio Preto, Brazil
- 14 Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
- 15 Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
- 16 Fleury S.A. (Brazil), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- 17 Laboratório de Anatomia Patológica e Biologia Molecular da Rede, São Paulo, Brazil
- 18 Santa Casa of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- 19 Hospital Pérola Byington, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Dear Reviewer, Thank you for your comments and suggestions aimed on improving the quality of our manuscript. Thanks for your contributions and revisions we have reached a more robust paper placed in the international content, shorten and most important with a stronger statically analysis.As requested, we have done the regression analyses now applying the polychoric regression model, which is more suitable for handling the ordinal variables present in our research questions.To conduct the new analyses, we utilized the `VGAM` package in the R statistical environment. This package is particularly effective for fitting regression models for ordinal data, as is the case with our dependent variables based on Likert scales.
Keywords: Breast neoplasm, Consensus Development Conferences, Neoadjuvant Therapy, Sentinel lymph node, breast tumor markers
Received: 29 Feb 2024; Accepted: 17 Sep 2024.
Copyright: © 2024 Couto, Hassan, Steinmacher, Pessoa, Millen, Zerwes, Cavalcante, Tosello, Novita, Machado Badan, Esteves, SOARES, Budel, Fernandes Chala, Fernandes, Freitas Junior, Oliveira, Budel and Mattar. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Henrique L. Couto, Breast Image Department, Brazilian Society of Mastology, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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