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When evaluating for PMRT in patients who did not receive neoadjuvant chemotherapy and are found to be pN0, do you utilize clinical T-staging, or pathologic T-staging?

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Radiation Oncology · Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh

If no neoadjuvant therapy, I rely on the pathologic staging rather than clinical staging for PMRT decisions.

So, for a cT3 that is a pT1-2, I would not offer PMRT. I do consider factors including receptor status, margins status, LVSI, and age.

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