Do you routinely include IMNs for left sided inflammatory breast cancer?
Can the IMNs ever be spared, or would you consider it mandatory for all inflammatory breast cancers?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
In our practice we radiate the IM in all PMRT. The recent studies that mildly favor regional nodal XRT including IM nodes in intermediate breast cancer make it hard to argue to do less in the most advanced. Reviewing studies of PET/CT in IBC provide a rough estimate of gross IM involvement in IBC of...