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Background: The factors leading to breast cancer recurrence are incompletely understood. We carried out a retrospective study of outcome for 1065 breast cancer patients for which we examined factors correlating with cancer recurrence. We found that infection of wounds after surgery for primary disease positively correlated with cancer recurrence (Murthy et al, BJC 2007). Patients with wound complications were 3 fold more likely to have systemic recurrences than those without (p<0.00… Show more
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