Do you differ your PMRT treatment if a patient had a nipple sparing mastectomy?
Would you do anything different than usual regarding bolus, energies, skin dose desired for post-mastectomy chest wall radiation if a nipple-sparing mastectomy was performed?
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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network
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I usually follow same principal and limited published data has not higher complications or nipple loss with use of RT
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Radiation Oncology · Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh
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Agreed, not much data available so standard technique. This is a review:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=24687150
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