TY - JOUR
T1 - Management of inflammatory breast cancer
T2 - Focus on radiotherapy with an evidence-based approach
AU - Scotti, Vieri
AU - Desideri, Isacco
AU - Meattini, Icro
AU - Cataldo, Vanessa Di
AU - Cecchini, Sara
AU - Petrucci, Alessia
AU - Franzese, Ciro
AU - Greto, Daniela
AU - Livi, Lorenzo
AU - Bonomo, Pierluigi
AU - Biti, Giampaolo
PY - 2013/4
Y1 - 2013/4
N2 - Inflammatory breast cancer represents a rare and extremely aggressive subtype of breast cancer. Due to its rarity, prospective studies are a difficult goal to obtain in this field.Nowadays a multimodal approach seems to be the standard approach. Role and timing of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are still debated issues. In this scenario interest is rising in molecular and target therapies.We performed a review analyzing the management of this unfavorable disease focusing on the role of radiotherapy, with particular emphasis on levels of evidence.
AB - Inflammatory breast cancer represents a rare and extremely aggressive subtype of breast cancer. Due to its rarity, prospective studies are a difficult goal to obtain in this field.Nowadays a multimodal approach seems to be the standard approach. Role and timing of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are still debated issues. In this scenario interest is rising in molecular and target therapies.We performed a review analyzing the management of this unfavorable disease focusing on the role of radiotherapy, with particular emphasis on levels of evidence.
KW - Advanced breast cancer
KW - Bolus
KW - Inflammatory breast cancer
KW - Level of evidence
KW - Multimodality treatment
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ctrv.2012.04.001
DO - 10.1016/j.ctrv.2012.04.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 22564719
AN - SCOPUS:84869492711
SN - 0305-7372
VL - 39
SP - 119
EP - 124
JO - Cancer Treatment Reviews
JF - Cancer Treatment Reviews
IS - 2
ER -