Cancer patients who receive neoadjuvant therapy followed by mastectomy may not need radiation
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 12:42
in Health & Medicine
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.
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