Personalizing Breast Cancer Irradiation Using Biology: From Bench to the Accelerator

Front Oncol. 2018 Apr 5:8:83. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2018.00083. eCollection 2018.

Abstract

While adjuvant treatments of early breast cancers (BCs) had significantly improved patients' overall survival, some of them will still develop locoregional relapses and/or severe late radio-induced toxicities. Here, we propose to review how to personalize locoregional treatment by identifying patients at high and low risk of locoregional relapse, patients at risk of late radio-induced side effects. We will, therefore, discuss how to enhance BC radiosensitivity. Finally, we will address how personalized radiotherapy could be implemented in prospective clinical trials.

Keywords: biomarkers; breast cancer; normal tissue complications; predictive factors; radiosensitization.

Publication types

  • Review