Mastectomy alone for pT1-2 pN0-1 breast cancer patients: when postmastectomy radiotherapy is indicated.
Maria Cristina LeonardiIda Rosalia ScognamiglioPatrick MaisonneuveSamantha DicuonzoDamaris Patricia RojasMaria Alessia ZerellaAnna MorraMarianna Alessandra GerardiMattia ZaffaroniAlessandra De ScalziAntonia GirardiFrancesca MagnoniEmilia MontagnaCristiana Iuliana FodorViviana Enrica GalimbertiPaolo VeronesiRoberto OrecchiaRoberto PacelliBarbara Alicja Jereczek-FossaGiovanni CorsoPublished in: Breast cancer research and treatment (2021)
Selected patients, namely those with at least two additional risk factors, presented high enough LRR risk to support the use of postmastectomy radiotherapy in both N0 and N1 subgroups. Moreover, the observation that radiotherapy may provide benefits that go beyond local control deserves to be further investigated.
Keyphrases
- early stage
- locally advanced
- risk factors
- end stage renal disease
- breast reconstruction
- radiation therapy
- radiation induced
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- peritoneal dialysis
- squamous cell carcinoma
- rectal cancer
- patient reported outcomes
- mass spectrometry
- high resolution
- patient reported
- atomic force microscopy