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Would you consider adjuvant RT in an elderly patient with a T1N0 ER+ breast cancer who initially proceeds with endocrine therapy alone and is unable to tolerate it?

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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Given the low-risk nature of T1N0 luminal lesions among older patients (per the CALGB 9343 and Prime II trials), the conundrum of whether to pursue adjuvant endocrine therapy, radiotherapy (RT), or both after lumpectomy arises with some frequency. Patients who decline RT yet ultimately cannot tolera...

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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network

Based on study from Canada for early stage breast cancer when they had waiting time for RT up until 12 -16 weeks they didn't see any negative impact of delaying RT in early stage breast cancer

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