Introduction:

breast cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide, the radial scar is a high-risk lesion for cancer development, currently there is controversy regarding the treatment of these lesions.

Objective:

review publications that evaluate and measure breast cancer in the vicinity of the percutaneous radial scar biopsy site.

Material and methods:

systematic review in the PubMed database, with the terms breast radial scar and neoplasms, looking for articles with a single diagnosis of radial scar by percutaneous biopsy and subsequent open biopsy with finding of malignant breast neoplasm, separated from the site of the first biopsy and confirmed by measuring the distance between the two lesions.

Results:

242 publications were found. Of these, 108 were excluded in the screening by title and abstract, 28 of them because they were review articles. Two articles in German, five case presentations, one letter, and one comment were excluded. The others were excluded because they did not correspond to the objective of the investigation. From the remaining review, two articles were selected for qualitative analysis.

Conclusions:

this study reviews the presence of breast cancer outside the pure radial scar biopsy site. Despite the low frequency of this location, excisional biopsy is considered the appropriate approach after percutaneous biopsy because it allows the diagnosis of cancer near this site.