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  3. Postoperative Complications After Breast Cancer Surgery And Effect On Recurrence And Survival: Population-based Cohort Study.
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  3. Postoperative Complications After Breast Cancer Surgery And Effect On Recurrence And Survival: Population-based Cohort Study.

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Postoperative complications after breast cancer surgery and effect on recurrence and survival: population-based

Linda Adwall1,2, Irma Fredriksson3,4, Hella Hultin1,3

  • 1Department of Surgery, South General Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.

BJS Open
|December 14, 2024

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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Surgical site infections after breast cancer surgery do not significantly increase the risk of systemic recurrence. However, efforts to reduce these common complications are still crucial for patient outcomes.

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Area of Science:

  • Oncology
  • Surgical Outcomes
  • Infectious Disease

Background:

  • Conflicting evidence exists on the link between postoperative complications and breast cancer outcomes.
  • Surgical site infection (SSI) is a common complication after breast cancer surgery.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the risk of systemic breast cancer recurrence following SSI.
  • To evaluate the impact of SSI on locoregional recurrence, breast cancer-specific survival, and overall survival.

Main Methods:

  • Nationwide cohort study of 82,102 patients undergoing primary breast cancer surgery in Sweden (2008-2019).
  • Identified patients via the Breast Cancer Database Sweden 3.0.
  • Used multivariable Cox regression to analyze the association between SSI (within 90 days) and oncological outcomes.

Main Results:

  • 15.7% of patients experienced SSI within 90 days.
  • SSI was not significantly associated with systemic recurrence, locoregional recurrence, or breast cancer-specific survival.
  • SSI was initially associated with worse overall survival, but this finding was not robust in sensitivity analyses.

Conclusions:

  • SSI after breast cancer surgery does not significantly elevate the risk of systemic recurrence.
  • Minimizing SSI rates remains important despite the lack of a direct link to systemic recurrence.