How would you approach the treatment of an elderly patient with dementia, with multifocal pT1b IDC s/p lumpectomy, with extensive DCIS, and medial margin positive for DCIS?

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It would be a function of her expected survival from dementia (geriatric assessment) and will her breast cancer be an issue in her lifetime based on the assessment. Based on that option, could be nothing to AI or RT.

How would you approach the treatment of an elderly patient with dementia, with multifocal pT1b IDC s/p lumpectomy, with extensive DCIS, and medial margin positive for DCIS? | Mednet