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In a patient with local recurrence of breast cancer after mastectomy, how would you sequence adjuvant treatment after wide local resection?
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Radiation Oncology · Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Endocrine therapy can be given simultaneously with RT without increasing toxicity or decreasing effectiveness, as shown in a randomized French-Swiss trial (Azria et al., PMID 20138810). Toxicities from chemotherapy may be greater and its effectiveness reduced (at least for high-risk patients) when g...