Is There a Role for Post-Mastectomy Radiotherapy for T1-2N1 Breast Cancers With Node-Positive Pathology After Patients Become Node-Negative Pathology Following Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy?

Frontiers in Oncology
Qian WangBing Sun

Abstract

Purpose: To assess the benefit of post-mastectomy radiotherapy (PMRT) in breast cancer (BC) patients with T1-2N1M0 who developed pathologically negative lymph nodes (ypN0) after undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) and mastectomy. Patients and Materials: Patients with T1-2 tumors and positive lymph node(s) who became pN0 after NAC and mastectomy were screened from our prospectively maintained database. The primary endpoint was recurrence-free survival (RFS), and the secondary endpoints were local recurrence-free survival (LRFS) and overall survival (OS). Propensity-score matching (PSM) was conducted for the comparison between PMRT and non-PMRT groups. Results: Of the 142 eligible patients, 110 (77.5%) received PMRT, and 32 (22.5%) did not. The median follow-up time was 72 months. Univariate analyses showed that the 5-year RFS, LRFS, and OS rates were 88.7, 94.5, and 96.1, respectively, with PMRT and 72.4, 90.1, and 95.0% without PMRT (p = 0.028; p = 0.151; p = 0.971). Multivariate analyses established PMRT as a significant prognostic factor for RFS rate (HR, 0.411; 95% CI, 0.175-0.968; p = 0.042). After a PSM analysis (64 in the PMRT group vs. 32 in the non-PMRT group), PMRT remained significant, with improved RFS in univa...Continue Reading

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