Do you recommend re-excision of a unifocal positive anterior margin at skin after lumpectomy in a patient with otherwise low risk breast cancer features?   

There are few data on how margin location affects outcome. A group from Dundee and Perth in Scotland reported that re-excision performed for an anterior margin of less than 1 mm found residual disease in only 4% of patients who had initial excision in the subcutaneous plane, compared to 24% of patie...

I have been told by my surgical colleagues that the anterior margins are sometimes “overly-called close” since: Their initial skin incision is often directly over the lesion (i.e., anterior to the tumor), and their blade essentially always goes into some of the breast tissue (at least e...