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Breast Cancer • Radiation Oncology • Medical Oncology • Rheumatology • Dermatomyositis • Dermatology • Breast Cancer, Non-metastatic
Do you offer adjuvant radiation therapy for a breast cancer patient with dermatomyositis?
If so, what dose-fractionation do you utilize? What other factors do you take into consideration?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
This is an exceptionally important question for clinicians. I'm a little biased as I run an autoimmune Myositis Clinic, but here are my two cents:
Paraneoplastic dermatomyositis (DM) is a fairly common occurrence (roughly about 15% of all DM cases, but up to 30-40% in some subtypes, such as adult p...
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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
Dermatomyositis can be paraneoplastic syndrome because of malignancy including breast cancer. One of the treatments for it is treat the cancer which includes surgery and adjuvant RT. We treat with RT like any other breast cancer.