Cancer Patients Who Receive Neoadjuvant Therapy Followed By Mastectomy May Not Need Radiation

Early-stage breast cancer patients who exhibit limited lymph node involvement may not require post-surgery radiation therapy (RT) when they receive neoadjuvant chemotherapy before a mastectomy, according to researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The findings were reported at the 50th Annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology.

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Filed under: Radiology on October 1st, 2008