Publications by authors named "Jose Reyes Rodriguez Garrido"
Radiat Oncol
October 2020
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
