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Breast Cancer • Radiation Oncology
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?
What is the maximal amount of time you would allow between the surgery the start of adjuvant RT? What other factors would you consider when deciding whether to offer adj RT after a failure of endocrine therapy?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
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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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
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