Boosts for DCIS Mastectomy?

Nana60

Hello,

I have a question - I am just completing 28 radiation treatments for DCIS because of positive chest wall margins after a mastectomy in August. (I have TE.) I am wondering if boosts are necessary? My Radiation Oncologist said they would be aimed at the scar, which has the highest chance of recurrence. 

Any advice would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

 Kim

AICa

There's a woman on one of the recent treatment groups who had a recurrence on her mastectomy scar. That would make me go for the boosts. I'm having 28 treatments and 8 boosts; the boosts are easier.

Nana60

Thanks so much for taking the time to share this with me. I really apprecaite it.