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How do you approach an early stage breast cancer patient s/p BCS in which ECE is found on a positive sentinel node?

Do you advocate for completion ALND? If so, would you radiate the dissected axilla?
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Radiation Oncology · Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh
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These are cases that we are facing more commonly and my thought is the answer shouldn't change whether this is BCS or mastectomy (though less data in this setting).

I will discuss with the patient the limitations of Z011 and AMAROS with respect to ENE. With focal microscopic ECE, I will often proceed...

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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network
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For microscopic ECE, we would do regional nodal RT including 1, 2, 3, and supraclav node instead of ALND.

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