Do Patients After Reexcision Due to Involved or Close Margins Have the Same Risk of Local Recurrence as Those After One-Step Breast-Conserving Surgery?

摘要

To explore whether patients after a reexcision due to involved or close margins have the same risk of local recurrence (LR) than those after a one-step breast-conserving surgery (BCS); to learn whether the presence of residual cancer in the reexcision specimen influences the probability of LR.