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How do you manage early stage breast cancer patients with suspicious internal mammary nodes on imaging?

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Radiation Oncology · UNC School of Medicine

In patients with a suspicious IMN, who are getting BCT, I would:

a. Include the IMN chain in the target volume and give it the same dose as the breast is getting.
b. Boost the IMN suspicious area to a dose that would reasonably sterilize that node. In the era of 2 Gy per fraction, that typically wou...

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