Breast conservation treatment and frozen section analysis of margins

Abstract

I read with interest the article by Woon et al. published in a recent issue of the Annals on the reduction of re-excision rates with the use of intraoperative frozen section (FS) analysis.1 This certainly has the potential to improve patient outcomes after surgery as their study has demonstrated. It is also likely that a decrease in re-operation rates would have a positive influence on patients choice to undergo breast conservation treatment (BCT) rather than mastectomy.