Fig. 1From: The effect of smoking on biological change of recurrent breast cancerConsort diagram. Recurrence occurred in 77 of 989 patients who underwent curative resection. However, nineteen of them did not undergo biopsy because of distant metastatic recurrence. In this study, such cases are also included. Of the remaining, 3 patients did not know the smoking history, so we studied in the remaining 50 casesBack to article page