Robert Mutter, MD

An expert from the Mayo Clinic notes that there’s also a great amount of interest in further optimizing the dose of radiation after mastectomy, especially in patients with breast cancer immediately following reconstruction.

Hypofractionated—large doses of radiation given over a shorter period of time than standard radiation—and conventional proton radiotherapy yielded comparable normal tissue sparing and complication rates postmastectomy in patients with breast cancer, according to findings from a recent study.

If feasible, hypofractionated radiation—large doses of radiation given over a shorter period of time than standard radiation—after mastectomy would provide more patients with breast cancer a tissue-sparing option, according to an expert from the Mayo Clinic.

Judy C. Boughey, MD; Robert Mutter, MD; and Siddhartha Yadav, MD, MBBS, of Mayo Clinic spoke with CancerNetwork® multidisciplinary findings presented at the 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, ranging from surgery to radiotherapy to biomarker research.

Robert Mutter, MD, of Mayo Clinic says that proton postmastectomy radiation therapy allows for excellent tissue sparing in the management of breast cancer.