Radiation Oncology

Male Breast Cancer

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How would you approach surveillance imaging for men with early-stage, hormone receptor-positive breast cancer after unilateral mastectomy?

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Is it reasonable to use hypofractionation in early stage male breast cancer s/p lumpectomy?

What clinical and pathologic features - if any - would necessitate conventional fractionation?

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Would you treat a male breast cancer patient with post-mastectomy radiotherapy for a single positive sentinel lymph node and a low Oncotype?

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Would you offer a male patient adjuvant radiation for treatment of his breast cancer if his axillary dissection specimen shows a single node with isolated tumor cell(s) (ITC)?

The treatment of ITC and micrometastases in lymph nodes in women with breast cancer is controversial. Given the rarity of male breast cancer, complex ...

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Would you recommend PMRT in a male patient with a T2N0 breast cancer?

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Would you consider omitting breast radiation in a male with early stage breast cancer who has undergone BCT?

If a male has early stage breast cancer and would otherwise meet criteria for the CALGB or PRIME II trials, would omission of radiation be an option? ...

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Papers discussed in this category

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2017-06-01

Postmastectomy Radiation Therapy Is Associated With Improved Survival in Node-Positive Male Breast Cancer: A Population Analysis.

JAMA, 2011-02-09

Axillary dissection vs no axillary dissection in women with invasive breast cancer and sentinel node metastasis: a randomized clinical trial.

Lancet Oncol., 2014-11-01

Radiotherapy or surgery of the axilla after a positive sentinel node in breast cancer (EORTC 10981-22023 AMAROS): a randomised, multicentre, open-label, phase 3 non-inferiority trial.

J Clin Oncol, 2020 Feb 14

Management of Male Breast Cancer: ASCO Guideline.

Radiation Oncology

Male Breast Cancer

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