Incidence of local breast cancer recurrence with delayed radiation therapy.

Background: The purpose of this research was to examine the probability of ipsilateral breast cancer recurrence in individuals whose RT was delayed after the first chemotherapy and surgery.

Purpose: To analyze the effect of delaying RT for breast cancer patients (by more than 6 weeks after treatment).

Methodology: A retrospective analysis comprised 136 female breast cancer patients treated at the Baghdad Centre for Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine from 2021 to May 2022.