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Would you offer a patient over 70 years old with early stage, favorable breast cancer adjuvant whole breast radiation if her sentinel node biopsy shows a single node with isolated tumor cell (ITC)?

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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network

ITC would not change my decision about AI alone vs. RT plus AI.

If you decide to treat, then make some adjustment of the angle to include low lying nodes in the tangential beam but dont chase the nodal region.

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