The Impact of Re-Excision and Residual Disease on Local Recurrence After Breast Conservation Treatment for Patients With Early Stage Breast Cancer

Despite achieving negative final resection margins, the patients with residual disease in the re-excision specimen had a higher rate of local recurrence than patients who underwent single excision or patients without residual disease on re-excision. However, local recurrence was reasonably low in all 3 subgroups, and, therefore, neither re-excision nor residual disease represent contraindications for BCT.