ESTRO Multidisciplinary Management of Breast Cancer 2017

Less local treatment: The role of RT in BCT

Mainly due to the presence of local

recurrences, the event rate was about

three times higher in the group with BCS

only …

… even in patients with a favourable

prognosis, the avoidance of radiotherapy

and tamoxifen after BCS increases the

rate of local recurrences substantially.

Winzer K-J, et al. Eur J Cancer. 2004;40:998–1005.