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How would you approach patients who have undergone nipple sparing mastectomies with close or positive margins at the nipple areola complex?

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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network

We have treated a few patients with adjuvant RT with the same principal of positive margin and literature suggests that nipple areolar complex tolerates RT well with no excessive risk of complex failure.

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