Adjuvant radiotherapy in the conservative treatment of breast cancer

Authors

  • Mariela Hernández González Hospital Asistencial “Celestino Hernández Robau”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
  • Sergio Santana Rodríguez Hospital Asistencial “Celestino Hernández Robau”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
  • Lester Quirós Durán Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Keywords:

breast neoplasms/radiotherapy

Abstract

A descriptive retrospective study, with the aim of assessing in five years the effectiveness of adjuvant radiotherapy in the conservative treatment of breast cancer in patients treated from 2000 to 2003, was carried out at the Dr. Celestino Hernandez Robau University Hospital. A sample formed by 124 cases was taken; the most common age group was between 40 and 49 years of age, most of the patients did not have family antecedents of breast cancer and most of them were treated in the clinical stage I. A loco-regional relapse appeared in only 6.5 percent of the patients, most of them after 2-5 years. The most frequent location was the scar and the mammary tissue. There was not a significant relation between the treatment technique and the place of the relapse. The relationship between the loco-regional relapse and the tumor size and the clinical stage was significant; but the relation with the type of surgery, the status of the axillary dissection, the time between the surgical treatment and the radiotherapy, the use of radiation boosts and the suspensions during the treatment did not show a statistical relevance in the sample. The adverse reactions to the radiation treatment appeared in ten cases, and there was not evidence of a significant relation with the combined use of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. A few cases presented distant metastasis, most frequently bone metastasis, and most of them within 2 and 5 years.

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Author Biographies

Mariela Hernández González, Hospital Asistencial “Celestino Hernández Robau”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I Grado en Oncología

Sergio Santana Rodríguez, Hospital Asistencial “Celestino Hernández Robau”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I y II Grado en Oncología. Máster en Longevidad Satisfactoria. Profesor Auxiliar de la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara “Dr. Serafín Ruiz de Zárate Ruiz”.

Lester Quirós Durán, Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I Grado en Neurología

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Hernández González M, Santana Rodríguez S, Quirós Durán L. Adjuvant radiotherapy in the conservative treatment of breast cancer. Acta Méd Centro [Internet]. 2009 Sep. 12 [cited 2025 Jun. 30];3(3):27-33. Available from: https://revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/459

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 3 (2009): September-December

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Original Articles

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