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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?

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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network

I tend to use small bolus over the scar area in this setting

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Radiation Oncology · Marshfield Clinic - Rice Lake

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 s...

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