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Salvage Hypofractionated Radiotherapy in a Progressive Radiation-Induced Angiosarcoma: A Case Report
We report a case of a long-term local control and survival achieved in a patient affected by radiation-induced angiosarcoma (RIA). A 57-year-old woman had a history of breast-conserving surgery and radiation therapy for primary breast cancer. Eight years after the mastectomy, multiple nodal progress...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5786349/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29387515 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1886 |
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author | Bonzano, Elisabetta Guenzi, Marina Corvò, Renzo |
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description | We report a case of a long-term local control and survival achieved in a patient affected by radiation-induced angiosarcoma (RIA). A 57-year-old woman had a history of breast-conserving surgery and radiation therapy for primary breast cancer. Eight years after the mastectomy, multiple nodal progression was diagnosed as RIA and subsequentially treated by salvage lymph node dissection followed by adjuvant intensified radiotherapy to control the residual disease. Two and a half years later, the patient is alive and cancer-free. This experience shows that radiotherapy may have the potential to be a feasible and effective treatment to control RIA progression, and it may also play a role in the management of RIA as adjuvant. |
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spelling | pubmed-57863492018-01-31 Salvage Hypofractionated Radiotherapy in a Progressive Radiation-Induced Angiosarcoma: A Case Report Bonzano, Elisabetta Guenzi, Marina Corvò, Renzo Cureus Radiation Oncology We report a case of a long-term local control and survival achieved in a patient affected by radiation-induced angiosarcoma (RIA). A 57-year-old woman had a history of breast-conserving surgery and radiation therapy for primary breast cancer. Eight years after the mastectomy, multiple nodal progression was diagnosed as RIA and subsequentially treated by salvage lymph node dissection followed by adjuvant intensified radiotherapy to control the residual disease. Two and a half years later, the patient is alive and cancer-free. This experience shows that radiotherapy may have the potential to be a feasible and effective treatment to control RIA progression, and it may also play a role in the management of RIA as adjuvant. Cureus 2017-11-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5786349/ /pubmed/29387515 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1886 Text en Copyright © 2017, Bonzano et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Radiation Oncology Bonzano, Elisabetta Guenzi, Marina Corvò, Renzo Salvage Hypofractionated Radiotherapy in a Progressive Radiation-Induced Angiosarcoma: A Case Report |
title | Salvage Hypofractionated Radiotherapy in a Progressive Radiation-Induced Angiosarcoma: A Case Report |
title_full | Salvage Hypofractionated Radiotherapy in a Progressive Radiation-Induced Angiosarcoma: A Case Report |
title_fullStr | Salvage Hypofractionated Radiotherapy in a Progressive Radiation-Induced Angiosarcoma: A Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | Salvage Hypofractionated Radiotherapy in a Progressive Radiation-Induced Angiosarcoma: A Case Report |
title_short | Salvage Hypofractionated Radiotherapy in a Progressive Radiation-Induced Angiosarcoma: A Case Report |
title_sort | salvage hypofractionated radiotherapy in a progressive radiation-induced angiosarcoma: a case report |
topic | Radiation Oncology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5786349/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29387515 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1886 |
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