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How would you manage an elderly patient with metastatic breast cancer with locally advanced bilateral primaries?

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Radiation Oncology · Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh

It depends on symptoms. If no impeding skin breakdown, ulceration or pain/lymphedema, I will see how they respond on endocrine therapy.

If symptomatic, I will consider 30 Gy/10 fx using opposed tangents or in some cases with rapidly progressive disease 20 Gy/5 fx

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