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Incidence of local breast cancer recurrence with delayed radiation therapy

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Background

The purpose of this research was to examine the probability of ipsilateral breast cancer recurrence in individuals whose RT was delayed after the first chemotherapy and surgery.

Purpose

To analyze the effect of delaying RT for breast cancer patients (by more than 6 weeks after treatment).

Methodology

A retrospective analysis comprised 136 female breast cancer patients treated at the Baghdad Centre for Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine from 2021 to May 2022. External beam radiation was started more than 6 weeks after chemotherapy was finished for all patients who also had surgery. Clinical examination and ultrasound were part of the follow-up process.

Results

Patients’ ages varied from 28 to 71, and the majority (83%) had a mastectomy. The majority of cases (95.5%) were diagnosed as invasive ductal carcinoma on histopathology, with 49.6% being at stage 2 and 42.6% being at stage 3. Seventy-six percent of patients tested positive for hormones. Although 10 patients (7.35%) acquired distant metastases within 5 years, only 2 (1.47%) had local recurrence because of the delay in RT. Specifically, 91.1% had complete local control with no evidence of disease spread.

Conclusion

Delaying RT by more than 6 weeks in patients with breast cancer did not substantially affect local control, according to the results of a new research, the first of its type in Iraq.

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  1. Surgery Department, College of Medicine, Baghdad University, Baghdad, Iraq

    Hayder Hamza Alabedi

  2. College of Medicine, University of Warith Al-Anbiyaa, Karbala, Iraq

    Hayder Hamza Alabedi

  3. Al-Warith Cancer Institute, Karbala, Iraq

    Hayder Hamza Alabedi

  4. Oncology and Nuclear Medicine Specialized Hospital, Ninava Directorate Health, Mosul, Iraq

    Imad Khalid Ahmed & Ahmed Sabah Mohammed Jamil

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Alabedi, H.H., Ahmed, I.K. & Jamil, A.S.M. Incidence of local breast cancer recurrence with delayed radiation therapy. Breast Cancer Res Treat (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-024-07385-9

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