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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Senologie - Zeitschrift für Mammadiagnostik und -therapie 2021; 18(02): 126-135
DOI: 10.1055/a-1196-2951
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Treatment of Ipsilateral Breast Cancer Recurrence (IBCR) after Breast Conservation Therapy (BCT)

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Bernd Gerber
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Klinikum Südstadt Hansestadt Rostock
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Steffi Hartmann
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Klinikum Südstadt Hansestadt Rostock
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Angrit Stachs
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Klinikum Südstadt Hansestadt Rostock
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Abstract

In-breast recurrence or ipsilateral breast cancer recurrence (IBCR) suspected by imaging or palpation, second primary carcinoma and any distant metastases should be ruled out by core biopsy prior to breast surgery. The surgical standard in IBCR management is salvage mastectomy. Increasingly, however, patients express a justified desire for breast conservation in IBCR. In favourable relations of tumour and breast size, long interval between primary disease and IBCR recurrence, favourable tumour biology and ruled out distant metastases, re-BCT may be an option. As patients usually have undergone adjuvant radiotherapy already, re-radiotherapy (brachytherapy/percutaneous RT) should be explored. Systemic management must be based on tumour biology and prior treatment. While the risk of local recurrence increases following re-BCT, overall survival is not compromised.



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18 March 2021

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