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Breast Cancer • Radiation Oncology
What is your strategy and evidence to use hyperthermia and/or chemotherapy with radiation for recurrent breast cancer?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
When dealing with recurrent breast cancer and considering re-irradiation several factors need to be evaluated:1. Is the patient metastatic- deciding on local therapy for palliation or more aggressive treatment for local only recurrence2. How much previous dose and to what regions.I offer patients se...
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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
I have used pulsed dose rate external beam (no hyperthermia) several times for chest wall retreatment with good results where 20 cGy is delivered every 3 minutes. There is a long history of this type of technique in France and England by JJ Mazeron and others.