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Breast Cancer
Studies from University of Genoa provide new data on breast cancer
January 29th, 2009
According to a study from Genoa, Italy, "Aims and background. Recent advances in the management of patients with breast cancer are focused toward the reduction of overall treatment time of radiotherapy by delivering a dose biologically equivalent to a standard schedule." "The aim of the present study was to evaluate the feasibility and preliminary toxicity of a moderately hypofractionated whole breast irradiation schedule with the addition of a concomitant boost delivered to the tumor bed once-a-week in patients with early breast cancer submitted to conservative surgery. We selected patients with pT1c and pT2 N0/N+ M0 carcinoma of the breast with negative Surgical...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-01-29)
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