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Breast Cancer Patients can Have Radiation Therapy Sans Surgery Thanks to New Breast MRI
Physician researchers at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and University of Washington Medical Center conducted the study on 167 patients, who went for radiation therapy for invasive breast cancer after surgical staging of their tumors,
The researchers found that the tumors' physiological information shown on MRI scans was linked to surgically based findings of cancer having spread to lymph nodes, indicating that breast MRI could tell whether women who would be going for surgery would need radiation therapy later and how much.
The results of the study are important, as the standard of care for women with breast cancer has improved in the past five years. Earlier decisions related with radiation therapy were taken after surgery and before chemotherapy,
"When you give chemotherapy first, and then perform the surgery to remove the cancer and sample the lymph nodes, you reduce your ability to know whether there was cancer in the axillary (underarm) lymph nodes before the patient was treated with chemotherapy," said Dr. Christopher Loiselle, a resident in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UW Medical Center.
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