Talk:Lumpectomy

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Ideal sources for Wikipedia's health content are defined in the guideline Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) and are typically review articles. Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about Lumpectomy.

PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles)
The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine.
Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC

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To this article I hope to add more information about the history behind lumpectomies as well as a general in-depth description about the procedure with citations to verify all the information and make sure it is all reliable.

Potential Bibliography: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12393820 https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/lumpectomy/about/pac-20394650 https://www.cancer.org/cancer/breast-cancer/treatment/surgery-for-breast-cancer.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28391871 Celsisa (talk) 03:50, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]