“…According to these studies, the time interval from initial surgery to IBTR (disease-free interval) was one of the most important predictors of disease recurrence after IBTR [3,4,5,6,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16]. Patients with IBTR >5 years after breast-conserving surgery have a better prognosis than patients with earlier IBTR [8,13,15,16]. However, it is not rare for patients with IBTR >5 years after initial surgery to develop systemic recurrence [6,13,16].…”