Management of Inflammatory Breast Cancer After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Institut Curie, Paris (France)
- Department of Biostatistics, Institut Curie, Paris (France)
- Department of Medical Oncology, Institut Curie, Paris (France)
- Department of Surgery, Institut Curie, Paris (France)
Purpose: To assess the benefit of breast surgery for inflammatory breast cancer (IBC). Methods and Materials: This retrospective series was based on 232 patients treated for IBC. All patients received primary chemotherapy followed by either exclusive radiotherapy (118 patients; 51%) or surgery with or without radiotherapy (114 patients; 49%). The median follow-up was 11 years. Results: The two groups were comparable apart from fewer tumors <70 mm (43% vs. 33%, p = 0.003), a higher rate of clinical stage N2 (15% vs. 5%, p = 0.04), and fewer histopathologic Grade 3 tumors (46% vs. 61%, p <0.05) in the no-surgery group. The addition of surgery was associated with a significant improvement in locoregional disease control (p = 0.04) at 10 years locoregional free interval 78% vs. 59% but with no significant difference in overall survival rates or disease-free intervals. Late toxicities were not significantly different between the two treatment groups except for a higher rate of fibrosis in the no-surgery group (p <0.0001) and more lymphedema in the surgery group (p = 0.002). Conclusion: Our data suggest an improvement in locoregional control in patients treated by surgery, in conjunction with chemotherapy and radiotherapy, for IBC. Efforts must be made to improve overall survival.
- OSTI ID:
- 21491664
- Journal Information:
- International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics, Vol. 79, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.12.009; PII: S0360-3016(09)03673-6; Copyright (c) 2011 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.; ISSN 0360-3016
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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