01-08-2017 | Editorial
Personalized radiotherapy for invasive breast cancer in 2017
National S3 guidelines and DEGRO and AGO recommendations
Published in: Strahlentherapie und Onkologie | Issue 8/2017
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Radiotherapy in the curative setting for breast cancer has evolved over the past 15 years, from a one size fits all approach to a personalized, risk-adapted treatment within a multidisciplinary environment, taking more and more patient factors, the biology of the tumor, and the extent of disease in the lymph nodes into account. Before the year 2000, the picture was straightforward, with no radiotherapy following mastectomy (postmastectomy radiotherapy, PMRT), and whole breast radiotherapy (WBRT) with 50 Gy over 5 weeks after breast-conserving surgery in all patients. The picture is more complex today (see Fig. 1).×
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