"Total Tumor Load to assist in the decision for additional axillary surgery in the positive sentinel node breast cancer patients"(vol 45, 101882, 2022)

Autores da FMUP

• Nuno Miguel Teixeira De Sousa

  Autor

• Bárbara Neves Peleteiro

  Autor

• José Luís Rosas Fougo

  Autor

Unidades de investigação

• Ciências da Saúde Pública e Forenses, e Educação Médica

• Cirurgia e Fisiologia

• Laboratório Associado RISE- Rede de Investigação em Saúde

  

  Investigador

  Fernando Carlos De Landér Schmitt

• Medicina da Comunidade, Informação e Decisão em Saúde

• RISE-Health

  

  Investigador

  Fernando Carlos De Landér Schmitt

Abstract

The authors regret < to have wrongfully estimated the positive predictive value of the 190,000 CK19 mRNA copies/µL criterion from the data provided by the authors of the study ‘Total Tumor load assessed by one-step nucleic acid amplification assay as an intraoperative predictor for non-sentinel lymph node metastasis in breast cancer’. Therefore, where it reads in the discussion “From the data provided by the authors, we estimate a PPV of just 32,0%. This new TTL cut-off had inferior specificity and PPV when compared to the 260,000 CK19 mRNA copies/µL criterion.” it should read “From the data provided by the authors, we estimate a PPV of 50,0%. This new TTL cut-off had inferior specificity and similar PPV when compared to the 260,000 CK19 mRNA copies/µL criterion.">. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused. © 2022 The Author(s)

Keywords

• erratum