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Recommendation
Radiation therapy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy – Inflammatory breast cancer
For patients with inflammatory breast cancer who have been treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy, offer local/regional treatment with mastectomy followed by radiation therapy.
Offer local treatment with mastectomy followed by radiotherapy to people with locally advanced or inflammatory breast cancer that has been treated with chemotherapy
How this guidance was developed
This recommendation was adopted from the NICE 2018 guidelines (UK). The source recommendation was based on a systematic review of the evidence conducted to July 2008 (it was not updated in 2018) and used wording (‘Offer’) indicative of a strong recommendation (using GRADE methods) by the source guideline authors. Minor wording changes were made.
Radiation therapy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy – Inflammatory breast cancer
Recommendation
For patients with inflammatory breast cancer who have been treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy, offer local/regional treatment with mastectomy followed by radiation therapy.
Principles in action
Safe and quality care
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Multidisciplinary care
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Communication
This recommendation was adopted from the NICE 2018 guidelines (UK). The source recommendation was based on a systematic review of the evidence conducted to July 2008 (it was not updated in 2018) and used wording (‘Offer’) indicative of a strong recommendation (using GRADE methods) by the source guideline authors. Minor wording changes were made.