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Would you offer regional nodal irradiation for cN1 breast cancer patients who undergo neoadjuvant chemotherapy and experience a complete nodal response?

Assume she refused enrollment on B51.
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Radiation Oncology · Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
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This issue frequently comes up in patients where there appears to be equipoise in treating or not treating the regional nodes in breast conserving therapy (or offering post-mastectomy chest wall and regional nodes in mastectomy patients) with a complete pathologic response or conversion to node nega...

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