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Would you recommend adjuvant breast radiation following lumpectomy for a well-differentiated adenoid cystic carcinoma that appears to be a breast primary?

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Radiation Oncology · Mayo Clinic Hospital

For an adenoid cystic carcinoma of the breast treated with breast conserving surgery, I would recommend adjuvant radiotherapy after BCS. Though data are limited, there are both a SEER analysis and RARE cancer network study that demonstrate an advantage to radiotherapy following conserving surgery. I...

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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network

There are limited data.

Based on head and neck data, I have treated a few patients, one being very recently, for which I delivered 60 Gy equivalent to the surgical bed.

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Radiation Oncology · Meadowview Regional Medical Center

If there are small low grade negative nodes and wide free margin, one can treat limited breast to lumpectomy site versus observations.

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