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BIB_439

"Number needed to excise" / benign:malignant excision ratio — anti-FCR EXPECTATION-SETTING literacy. Fills a ZERO-coverage gap (NNE/benign-ratio framing absent corpus-wide) and is exactly patient-specific + TIME-CRITICAL: the patient has FOUR same-day excisions on 2026-05-26 (primary flank WLE + contralateral atypical + two batch-4 lesions), is FCR-prone, and ≥3 of 4 are likely benign — histology returns ~3–6 weeks later. Without pre-emptive framing, an anxious patient can mis-read benign results catastrophically ("why cut out nothing — did they miss something? was it pointless?") or build fal…

Evidence grade

B

Tier

1 (lar

Cited by tasks

7, 22, 24a

Identifiers

PMC11561728

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