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Breast Cancer • Radiation Oncology
How would you approach patients who have undergone nipple sparing mastectomies with close or positive margins at the nipple areola complex?
This is assuming they have other indications requiring post mastectomy radiation therapy.
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
We have treated a few patients with adjuvant RT with the same principal of positive margin and literature suggests that nipple areolar complex tolerates RT well with no excessive risk of complex failure.
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