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To the Editor: Jacobs et al. (Feb. 11 issue)¹ found that radial scars were an independent risk factor for breast cancer. We are surprised that the authors did not report any synchronous carcinoma associated with the 99 radial scars they examined. We recently reviewed 32 histologically confirmed radial-scar specimens obtained from 31 women who were treated in our center, where all stellate lesions are excised for histologic diagnosis. Cancer was associated with the radial scar in 31 percent of the women. The malignant lesions included six invasive carcinomas and four cases of ductal carcinoma in situ.

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