Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Delaying post-surgical radiation increases risk of breast cancer recurrence in older women
Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, March 21st, 2010
The study, which involved more than 18,000 women age 65 and older who had breast cancer, found that those who started radiation treatment more than six weeks after breast-conserving surgery were more likely to have a local recurrence than those whose radiation treatment started within six weeks of surgery. The findings are being published online by the British Medical Journal.
Rinaa Punglia, MD, MPH, a radiation oncologist at Dana-Farber and Brigham...
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