Radiation Oncology

Breast Surgery

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Do you recommend axillary dissection for women with ER+ breast cancer and low risk Oncotype or Mammaprint if single node positive with only 1-2 SLN removed, to ensure <4 nodes positive?

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What is your approach to young healthy women with locally advanced breast cancer and biopsy-proven low cervical lymph nodes?

Would you treat this as a locally advanced breast cancer and offer surgery, radiation, and systemic therapy? Does your management change depending on ...

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For patients with DCIS on biopsy but invasive disease in lumpectomy, are there any circumstances in which you would not recommend returning for a SNB?

For example, if the lumpectomy specimen had low risk/low volume invasive disease?

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Should axillary imaging be routinely performed in all patients with a new diagnosis of breast cancer?

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Would you consider lymphovascular invasion at the margin to be a positive margin in breast cancer surgery?

Would you recommend re-excision or proceed to adjuvant therapy if the tissue margin is negative? Pathologist states that tumor foci at margin was only...

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Would an unfavorable molecular subtype cause you to proceed with ALNDx after a positive SLNBx?

In a patient with a positive SLNBx, would triple negative or Her2+ status affect your decision on whether or not to proceed with a full ALNDx?

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Would you consider an axillary dissection in a young patient with high grade breast cancer and one sentinel LN with isolated tumor cells?

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What is the threshold for negative surgical margins in multifocal microinvasive carcinoma of the breast?

Do you follow invasive or DCIS guidelines? Would you consider re-excision in a patient with multifocal microinvasive carcinoma of the breast arising i...

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When do you recommend endocrine therapy for chemoprevention in women with high risk benign breast lesions?

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How would you advise a woman who had a full axillary lymph node dissection on the risk of lymphedema with mountain climbing?

I have a patient who will be climbing to the base camp of Mount Everest. Does a climb to 15,000 feet increase her risk? Should she wear a compression ...

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Is ALND required in all patient with clinically positive axillary nodes?

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How do you counsel women with a history of breast cancer who have dense breasts, with regards to mammography screening?

Is there a role for routine use of additional or alternative imaging modalities for these patients, such as tomosynthesis, MRI, or ultrasound? I...

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For early stage breast cancer patients, should lumpectomy + RT be recommended over mastectomy?

Randomized trials in the 1980s demonstrated equivalent survival and disease control outcomes for lumpectomy + RT vs mastectomy, but several recent pop...

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Which patients with DCIS can be observed following lumpectomy?

Has the recent 12-year ECOG update for surgical excision of DCIS without radiation therapy changed your practice management?

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