Would you recommend PMRT using a hypofractionated course to the chest wall and nodes?
Would you recommend this if we were treating level I/II?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
With recent publication of Chinese data with median follow-up of 5 years showing no difference in any end point, we routinely offer hypofractionation to patients 65 and above with non inflammatory breast ca and no immediate reconstruction. For patients who have reconstruction done or planned, we enr...
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Radiation Oncologist at Mallory Radiotherapy, PLLC The dose fractionation on the Chinese trial is int...
Radiation Oncologist at Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network We now use hypofractionation routinely for most PM...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
At Banner MDACC, we transitioned to 20 fractions (15 fx followed by a 5 fx boost), based on the in-house MDACC protocol during peak COVID in April 2020. This is for most PMRT patients, but does not typically include inflammatory breast cancer patients.The interesting thing (anecdotally) is that the ...
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Radiation Oncologist at Baylor Scott & White Health I have used 40.05/15 for the breast or chest wall ...
The dose fractionation on the Chinese trial is int...
We now use hypofractionation routinely for most PM...