Abstract:Background: Axillary radiation and surgery have provided equivalent local control in early breast cancer patients. It is believed that tangential field (TF) radiation that was used to treat the breast coincidently delivered radiation treatment to the lower axilla and eradicated the disease. In the era of CT-based three dimensional- (3D) radiotherapy planning, however concerns have been raised about the adequacy of coverage of the axillary levels in the tangential fields. In this study, author evaluated the cov… Show more
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