Radiotherapy in breast cancer: current standards of treatment, prediction of local recurrence and open questions
Coucke, P.; Lakosi, F.; Rorive, A.; Janvary, Z.L.; Collignon, J.; Jansen, N.; Andre, C.; Jerusalem, G.
Revue Medicale de Liege 66(5-6): 320-325
2011
ISSN/ISBN: 0370-629X PMID: 21826970 Document Number: 652445
Adjuvant radiotherapy after surgery is a ("well-established standard" in routine clinical practice for breast cancer. Nevertheless, a variety of questions still remain unanswered. We intend to illustrate the overall importance of radiotherapy in breast cancer and highlight some unresolved questions by quoting presentations recently made at ASTRO-2010. More and more emphasis is put on the idea of an individual approach. Predicting the individual local recurrence risk is the search for the "Holy Grail". Methods such as nomograms and genomic profiling are currently tested but need to be validated before their widespread clinical application.