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Recommendation
Radiation therapy to the chest wall after mastectomy #3
For patients with breast cancer who have undergone a mastectomy and have lymph node-negative T3 or T4 cancer, consider adjuvant radiation therapy to the chest wall.
Consider adjuvant postmastectomy radiotherapy for people with node-negative T3 or T4 invasive breast cancer
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 September 2017 and used wording (‘Consider’) indicative of a conditional recommendation (using GRADE methods) by the source guideline authors. The source recommendation was accepted with minor stylistic changes, but with no changes to the meaning or tone of the source recommendation.
Radiation therapy to the chest wall after mastectomy #3
Recommendation
For patients with breast cancer who have undergone a mastectomy and have lymph node-negative T3 or T4 cancer, consider adjuvant radiation therapy to the chest wall.
Principles in action
Safe and quality care
This recommendation was adopted from the NICE 2018 guidelines (UK). The source recommendation was based on a systematic review of the evidence conducted to September 2017 and used wording (‘Consider’) indicative of a conditional recommendation (using GRADE methods) by the source guideline authors. The source recommendation was accepted with minor stylistic changes, but with no changes to the meaning or tone of the source recommendation.