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Local management with surgery and radiation-of-localized breast cancer

  • Mastectomy = lumpectomy + RT in OS (NEJM 2002;347:1227)
  • SLNB
  • ALND
  • RT: No OS for RT after BCS for pts >70 yo, ER+, & node (−) (CALGB 9343, JCO 2013;31:2382)
  • Post mastectomy RT
  • Consider addition of regional nodal irradiation to whole-breast irradiation after BCS if pos. LN (NEJM 2015;373:307; NEJM 2015;373:317)

General (neo)adjuvant principles

  • Aims: ↓ recurrence risk & ↑ survival, NAC ∼ adj. (JCO 2008;26:778)
  • aims of NAC in breast cancer
  • Recurrence:
    • TNBC, HER2+ mostly in 1st 3-5 y.
    • ER+ steady risk 0-14 y
  • Isolated local recurrence:
    • Tx decision case-by-case;
    • chemo benefit limited to ER-neg dz (CALOR, Lancet Onc 2014;15:156)

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