Emiel J. Rutgers, MD, from the Netherlands Cancer Institute, describes the personalization of treatment for patients with early-stage breast cancer.
Emiel J. Rutgers, MD, surgical oncologist, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, describes the personalization of treatment for patients with early-stage breast cancer.
In this group of patients, a physician must look at the results of a sentinel node biopsy and consider the primary tumor characteristics. If there is low tumor involvement, a physician would most likely determine that no treatment of the axial is adequate. If a patient has more tumor involvement in the sentinel nodes and larger tumor burden in the breast, elective treatment of the axilla with radiotherapy is a good strategy.
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