Lise‐Marie Roussel

The 5-mm margin in head and neck cancer surgery: From uncontrolled historical dogma to personalised surgery

For decades, a histological margin of 5 mm has been used as the practical definition of a “clear” resection in Head and Neck squamous cell carcinoma, particularly in the oral cavity. This short communication revisits the origins of this threshold, ang argues that it is based more...