Electron beam radiotherapy for loco-regional recurrence of breast cancer
Nicolato, A.; Franchini, P.
La Radiologia Medica 80(4 Suppl 1: 139-142
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0033-8362 PMID: 2251404 Document Number: 365539
125 cases of recurrent breast carcinoma (skin nodules or regional lymphnodes) after the primary radical treatment have been treated from 1975 to 1980. Most of these patients were irradiated with 6 MeV electron beams at 50-65 Gy; some of them with 20 MeV electrons. A complete response followed in 68% of lesions, a partial response in 23.2%. The survival at 5 and 10 years was respectively 25.6% and 8.8%. Low energy electron beam therapy is therefore an efficient way of treating loco-regional recurrences of breast carcinoma, after the failure of a radical primary treatment.