Publications by authors named "Inmaculada Beato-Tortajada"
Background: Care overburden makes it difficult to perform comprehensive geriatric assessments (CGAs) in oncology settings. We analyzed if screening tools modified radiotherapy in oncogeriatric patients.
Methods: Patients ≥ 65 years, irradiated between December 2020 and March 2021 at the Hospital Provincial de Castellón, completed the frailty G8 and estimated survival Charlson questionnaires.
Introduction: Numerous prospective studies have shown that the incorporation of genomic assays into clinical practice significantly impacts the choice of adjuvant treatments for patients with early-stage breast cancer. However, the same evidence does not exist for the treatment of locoregional recurrences.
Hypothesis And Objectives: The main objective of this work was to identify the clinicopathological, molecular, and genetic parameters that allow patients to be more precisely categorised into risk groups, in order to create a locoregional recurrence riskclassification tool, the PersonalRT27.
Article Synopsis
- The OPTIMAL study investigates the effectiveness of incidental irradiation of axillary lymph nodes in early-stage breast cancer patients with limited sentinel lymph node involvement, using advanced molecular techniques for better treatment standardization.
- Patients are randomly assigned to receive either comprehensive irradiation (including axillary and supraclavicular areas) or limited irradiation (only the breast and tumor bed) after conservative surgery, with the goal of demonstrating that the incidental approach is not worse regarding disease-free survival over five years.
- The study aims to address the lack of consensus in treating breast cancer patients with few affected lymph nodes and hopes that the One-Step Nucleic Acid Amplification (OSNA) technique can help identify which patients will
Hypoxia is related to poor prognosis because it is associated to chemo- and radioresistance. During recent years the evolution of imaging methods like PET/CT and MRI has meant the appearance of new perspectives with direct implications in radiation therapy. We discuss previous experiences in staging, planning and in the follow-up process with these techniques for measuring tumour hypoxia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: We evaluated the effectiveness of interstitial high dose rate brachytherapy as a single fraction boost to the surgical bed in patients with breast cancer undergoing conservative treatment. The comparison was with the alternative of electron boost.
Materials And Methods: Between April 1999 and December 2000, we conducted a prospective study of 84 patients with infiltrative breast carcinoma treated with conservative surgery, with free margins.