Open AccessPatterns of postmastectomy radiation therapy in clinically node-positive breast cancerpatients with pathologically negative lymph nodes after neoadjuvant chemotherapy
Author(s) -
Mutlay Sayan,
IRINA VERGALASOVA,
Mridula George,
Maria Kowzun,
Lindsay Potdevin,
Shicha Kumar,
BRUCE HAFFTY,
Nisha Ohri
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
turkish journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1303-6165
pISSN - 1300-0144
DOI - 10.55730/1300-0144.5313
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , hazard ratio , oncology , mastectomy , proportional hazards model , lymph node , stage (stratigraphy) , cancer , radiation therapy , chemotherapy , confidence interval , paleontology , biology
To analyze postmastectomy radiation therapy (PMRT) utilization and its association with overall survival (OS) in patients presenting with node-positive breast cancer who are pathologically node-negative (ypN0) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC).