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.
International cooperation: PlugX malware deleted from US computers
The FBI and the US Department of Justice have remotely removed the PlugX malware from over 4,200 computers in the US, according to an official