Understanding Recurrence: The Role of Foreign Clips in Breast Tissue

We end up placing this foreign metal clip into the breast tissue so we can easily identify it on future imaging and see if something shows up. And as a clinician, it's, you know, causation correlation for me has been that routinely, if there's going to be a recurrence or a progression, it's happening around that site. Which just intuitively, as a clinician, I'm thinking, well, is there just a local, you know, wound or a local immune reaction or a local inflammatory process that is making that site more vulnerable? Am I the only person who questions that?