Would you treat a mastectomy scar that went into the high axilla with a radiation boost?
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Radiation Oncology · Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
I was taught to always use a scar boost when giving prophylactic chest-wall irradiation.
That was based on the observation that local recurrences often appeared adjacent to the mastectomy scar before they developed elsewhere in the chest wall. However, the value of giving this extra dose (like the u...