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Would you boost a resected axilla if extra-nodal extension is found in a patient with breast cancer?

What are your volumes? What if the lymph node area was not clipped?
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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network
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The data on ECE for breast suggests it increases the risk of recurrence in undissected axilla or supraclav region. We don’t boost ECE region and most of the time don’t even include the dissected axilla with ECE in treatment volume unless the dissection is inadequate.

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