Browsing by Author "Westover, Kenneth Dale"

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    • Should a Sentinel Node Biopsy Be Performed in Patients with High-Risk Breast Cancer? 

      Westover, Kenneth Dale; Westover, Michael Brandon; Winer, Eric Paul; Richardson, Andrea Lynn; Iglehart, James Dirk; Punglia, Rinaa S. (SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research, 2011)
      A negative sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy spares many breast cancer patients the complications associated with lymph node irradiation or additional surgery. However, patients at high risk for nodal involvement based on ...

    • Significance Testing as Perverse Probabilistic Reasoning 

      Westover, Michael Brandon; Westover, Kenneth Dale; Bianchi, Matt Travis (BioMed Central, 2011)
      Truth claims in the medical literature rely heavily on statistical significance testing. Unfortunately, most physicians misunderstand the underlying probabilistic logic of significance tests and consequently often misinterpret ...