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Neoadjuvant chemotherapy can eliminate need for regional nodal irradiation in breast cancer

Patients whose breast cancer converted from lymph node-positive to lymph node-negative after neoadjuvant chemotherapy did not have a higher risk of recurrence or death when they skipped adjuvant regional nodal irradiation (RNI), according to a clinical trial. The study’s findings suggest that downstaging cancer-positive regional lymph nodes with neoadjuvant chemotherapy can let some patients skip adjuvant RNI without harming oncologic outcomes.

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