Excision and Reirradiation for Local Recurrence in Previously Treated Patient

This 61-year-old woman presented with new primary triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) in the lateral breast 10 years after completing radiation for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in the same breast.1 Despite neoadjuvant chemotherapy and mastectomy with only residual DCIS and negative nodes, patient developed a TNBC re-recurrence only 9 months later. She was treated with chemotherapy, and there remains positive residual localized disease by positron emission tomography (PET). At this point we recommend the following.
Source: International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics - Category: Radiology Authors: Tags: Gray Zone Source Type: research