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Breast Cancer • Radiation Oncology
How would you approach a patient with invasive breast cancer and DCIS s/p mastectomy and immediate reconstruction with a negative invasive margin, but a close DCIS margins?
The patient is not amenable to re-resection.
What pathologic features and/or margin status would preclude the need for additional irradiation?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
I would observe such a patient. With a close DCIS margin post mastectomy, there is very little evidence of a benefit to PMRT. Subsequent local recurrence is well below 10% so I see no clear role for PMRT in such a case. Even if there was a close invasive margin unless there were other aggressive fac...
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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
Completely agree with Dr. @Bruce G. Haffty. Even in the setting of a positive margin, PMRT for DCIS is of questionable utility. Klein et al., PMID 26185737, reported outcomes of all women in Ontario (N = 1,546) diagnosed with pure DCIS from 1994 to 2003 treated with mastectomy without radiother...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
Close margin is ambiguous as for some less than 1 mm is close, for others less than 2 mm is close. For T1 and T2 and close margin (< 1mm), would not treat routinely unless has T2, high grade, LVSI, and significant tumor close to margin (more than focal).