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If my pt had DCIS, after mastectomy, how soon and what kind of breast reconstruction surgery is preferred?
Actually some radiation oncologists will radiate for a positive skin or chest wall margin after mastectomy for DCIS especially if there are other high risk factors such as high grade, microinvasion, estrogen negative or BRCA +.If patient truly had DCIS alone and had a mastectomy, she would require an awful lot of surprises in her post-surgical pathology specimen to even sniff potentially requiring radiation. For DCIS treated with a Mastectomy, immediate recon would be the board answer, I'd imagine.
Actually some radiation oncologists will radiate for a positive skin or chest wall margin after mastectomy for DCIS especially if there are other high risk factors such as high grade, microinvasion, estrogen negative or BRCA +.
That logic certainly makes sense in an invasive carcinoma (especially for chest wall) but not for pure DCIS. Positive skin margin maybe if it was a nipple-sparing and it was in the retroareolar complex. Maybe some places radiate for fun but I don't see the overt benefit of that. Practice heterogeneity, however, is very real in Rad Onc.