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Radiation Therapy Not Used Enough Post-mastectomy: Study
The research, conducted by scientists at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, has appeared in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
The study analysed 2,260 women treated for breast cancer, assessing whether they had lumpectomy or mastectomy, and whether they would be strong candidates for radiation therapy.
Women who have particularly large tumours or cancer in four or more of their nearby lymph nodes are recommended to have radiation after mastectomy.
The research discovered that among patients who should receive radiation therapy according to medical guidelines, 95 per cent of those who had lumpectomy went on to receive radiation, but only 78 per cent of those who had mastectomy received radiation.
Among women for whom radiation is less clearly beneficial, 80 per cent of the lumpectomy patients had radiation while only 46 per cent of the mastectomy patients did.
Author Reshma Jagsi, assistant professor of radiation oncology at the U-M Medical School, said: "A substantial number of breast cancer patients are being undertreated. One in five women with strong indications for radiation after mastectomy failed to receive it. Radiation can be a life-saving treatment."
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