C Hennequin, Y Belkacémi, C Bourgier, D Cowen, B Cutuli, A Fourquet, J-M Hannoun-Lévi, D Pasquier, S Racadot, S Rivera
Adjuvant radiotherapy is an essential component of the treatment of breast cancer. After conservative surgery for an infiltrating carcinoma, radiotherapy must be systematically performed, regardless of the characteristics of the disease, because it decreases the rate of local recurrence and by this way, specific mortality. A boost dose over the tumour bed is required if the patient is younger than 50 years-old. Partial breast irradiation could be routinely proposed as an alternative to whole breast irradiation, but only in selected and informed patients...
February 2022: Cancer Radiothérapie: Journal de la Société Française de Radiothérapie Oncologique