The NRG Oncology NSABP B-39/RTOG 0413 clinical trial compared whole-breast irradiation to accelerated partial-breast irradiation and determined that APBI was not statistically equivalent to WBI in local tumor control. The secondary outcome for the trial was quality-of-life.
Reduced screening rates and a higher prevalence of triple-negative breast cancer are driving elevated rates of advanced breast cancer in a geographic hotspot in Wilmington, Delaware, according to findings by researchers at ChristianaCare’s Cawley Center for Translational Cancer Research at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute.
