Maria Alessia Zerella, Samantha Dicuonzo, Samuele Frassoni, Mattia Zaffaroni, Marianna Alessandra Gerardi, Anna Morra, Damaris Patricia Rojas, Simona Arculeo, Luca Bergamaschi, Cristiana Fodor, Francesca Emiro, Consiglia Piccolo, Vincenzo Bagnardi, Federica Cattani, Viviana Galimberti, Paolo Veronesi, Roberto Orecchia, Maria Cristina Leonardi, Barbara Alicja Jereczek-Fossa
PURPOSE: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the toxicity, local control, overall and disease-free survival of elderly breast cancer (BC) patients treated with adjuvant once-weekly ultra-hypofractionated radiotherapy (RT) either with intensity-modulated RT (IMRT) or 3D conformal RT (3DCRT). METHODS: From July 2011 to July 2018, BC patients receiving 5.7 Gy once a week for 5 weeks to the whole breast after breast-conserving surgery were considered for the study...
January 6, 2022: Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology