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Breast Cancer • Radiation Oncology
When treating the regional nodes, what factors cause you to treat the lower axilla?
e.g. how does the tumor burden on axillary dissection, sentinel biopsy only, extracapuslar extension, and the size of hte metastasis play into your decision.
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
The two most important factors in node positive patients when we consider in treating level 1 and 2 axilla is inadequate dissection (this includes pts with sentinel node bx only) and a high percentage positivity (50% or more node positive ) in patients with an adequate dissection (10 or more node ta...
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