Sure. There are at least 2 reasons. One is related to

skewed statistical population -- for those who had breast biopsies, there are at least suspicious lesions (some of them are in fact are pre-cancer or even early cancers) in their breast(s) to promote the procedure. So for those women, they do have increased incidence rate for later diagnosis of breast cancer.

Secondly, the biopsy procedure itself DO increase your risk of developing breast cancer, at least in theory. The reason is most of the biopsies are done with X-ray localization. So repetitive X-ray irradiation to the normal breast tissue will increase the chance of those normal or pre-cancerous tissue to become breast cancer.

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