Ep 18: A 52-year-old woman with stage II breast cancer is scheduled for radiotherapy

Welcome to the Hyperexcision podcast. This podcast is a time-efficient alternative to the written content on the website. It supplements the exam preparation material available on the hyperexcision.com website for medical students. You can follow along with the written material on the website while listening to this podcast. If you have any comments or suggestions, email [email protected] case has a script. Clinical approach is a collection of hypothetical case discussions with questions that test the key concepts for a particular disease presentation.A 52-year-old woman presents with a 3-month history of a painless lump in her left breast. Biopsy confirms invasive ductal carcinoma, stage II (T2N1M0). She undergoes breast-conserving therapy (lumpectomy with sentinel lymph node biopsy). Post-operatively, she is referred to the oncology clinic where the multidisciplinary team recommends adjuvant radiotherapy to the left breast and regional lymph nodes. She is scheduled for external beam radiotherapy using modern planning techniques.