Should indications for postmastectomy radiation be different after a Goldilocks mastectomy?
For instance, would you be more inclined to treat a patient with T3N0 disease and no other risk factors? What if there were a small neighboring satellite lesion?
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Radiation Oncology · Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh
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Not a lot of data though there is this abstract which included a small number of patients receiving RT (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5959682/)
In general, I would not use different indications for PMRT with patients undergoing Goldilocks mastectomy.
For T3N0 cases, I tend to look mo...
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