In a patient with T2N0 breast cancer with skin involvement s/p lumpectomy and negative margins, if you are offering whole breast radiation, would you bolus your tangent fields?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
I tend to use small bolus over the scar area in this setting
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
No, I'd just treat like normal unless there was some unusual circumstance that made me particularly worried about that particular patient. I would however stick to 6x and try to put the hotspot over the incision/tumor cavity.
Oh, for the above I'm assuming when you say "skin involvement", you mean ...