How do you decide between high tangents or regional nodal radiation in patients with small, ER+ breast cancers who have a single positive sentinel node?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
I tend to look at factors such as age, LVSI as well as number of SLN (1/1 vs. 1/2,3,4).
After lumpectomy, for cases like this, my bias is to offer whole breast and RNI. I have also started offering more 40/15 to breast and lymph nodes so this approach doesn't lengthen course of treatment as c...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
There is wide variation in practice and to standardized across our network we follow guidelines as published by ushttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28939351