Coated VICRYL* Plus Suture Compared to Chinese Silk in Scheduled Breast Cancer Surgery

Exclusion Criteria

• •Unable to give consent and unlikely to comply with study requirements and complete the 90-day follow up visit
• •Undergoing surgery for modified radical mastectomy with immediate breast reconstruction, cosmetic breast operations, reduction, expansion, insertion of prothesis, duct ectasia or infective breast disease or implant
• •Surgical wounds classified as Class II, III or IV using CDC SSI Surgical Wound Classification
• •Has inflammatory cancers or skin ulceration
• •Has known allergy or intolerance to triclosan
• •Has compromised wound healing or chronic immune deficiency, for example diabetes, prolonged steroid use, AIDS or substance abuse
• •Has serious heart and/or lung disease
• •Has skin scar history or family history
• •Has direct relationship to or involvement in this or other studies under the direction of the investigator or center
• •Received an experimental drug or device within 30 days prior to the planned start of treatment