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

Topics: Breast Cancer • Radiation Oncology

What are your volumes? What if the lymph node area was not clipped?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice

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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Radiation Oncologist at Northwestern Medical Group
Would you treat the dissected axilla upon finding ...

Radiation Oncologist at Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network
No boost unless there is a visible undissected nod...

Radiation Oncologist at University of Minnesota
What if a SLN procedure instead of a dissection wa...

Radiation Oncologist at Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network
I would say no for boost in any of the situations ...

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