Predictors of Whole Breast Radiation Therapy Completion in Early Stage Breast Cancer Following Lumpectomy

TL;DR: In this paper , a prospective survey-based evaluation of the impact of patient navigation on access to hypofractionated RT and financial toxicity in African-American breast cancer patients is presented.

Abstract: Toward further understanding of the geographic disparities in oncologic outcomes faced by American patients.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated whether research productivity during medical school predicts future research productivity in radiation oncology residency, and they found that student research productivity at medical school was correlated with the number of first-author publications during residency.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the adapted comorbidity index will be useful in studies of disease outcome and resource use employing administrative databases.

TL;DR: Lumpectomy followed by breast irradiation continues to be appropriate therapy for women with breast cancer, provided that the margins of resected specimens are free of tumor and an acceptable cosmetic result can be obtained.

TL;DR: It is found that variations in local treatment that substantially affect the risk of locoregional recurrence could also affect long-term breast cancer mortality, and that avoidance of a local recurrence in the conserved breast is recommended.

TL;DR: Ten years after treatment, accelerated, hypofractionated whole-breast irradiation was not inferior to standard radiation treatment in women who had undergone breast-conserving surgery for invasive breast cancer with clear surgical margins and negative axillary nodes.