What is the evidence that we should do anything different in breast cancer patients with 1 to 3 nodes involved versus those with four or more nodes involved?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
A careful read of the literature will demonstrate that there is nothing magical about the threshold as one moves from 3 to 4 involved nodes, that the risk of a local regional failure increases almost linearly with the number of positive nodes, and that the addition of postmastectomy radiation improv...