Faster treatment for breast cancer patients

Faster treatment for breast cancer patients

Two recent British studies paved the way for a significant improvement in the treatment of breast cancer for some women in France, by reducing the duration of radiotherapy to five days instead of the several weeks that it was generally required.

Danielle (a pseudonym) considers that she was "very lucky" in her ordeal. In June, a "small tumor in the breast 7 millimeters in size" was detected, which was found to be cancerous after a biopsy analysis.

Appointments have continued since then, with an operation in July at the Institut Gustave Roussy (the most important cancer treatment center in Europe near Paris) and a consultation with a surgeon in August and then a radiotherapy specialist in early September. On the same night, she had her first radiotherapy session, followed by four more sessions spanning one week.

Danielle has benefited from a new “compact” course of radiotherapy that reduces the number of post-operative sessions while still maintaining the same amount of efficacy.

This treatment approach is not yet applicable to all women at present. It is offered at the Institut Gustave Roussy to those over the age of sixty who suffer from non-confined ganglion cell carcinoma, and they account for more than 50% of all diagnosed breast cancer cases in France.

This new approach was adopted in the French hospital in February, after two British studies were published in 2020 that showed the efficacy of this treatment. Cases of relapse are the same in the traditional approach and that which is based on reducing radiotherapy sessions after the operation.

A XNUMX-year study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology bolstered the results of two different radiotherapy treatments for women with limited spread cancer. A first category underwent twenty-five sessions spread over five weeks, while a second category of women underwent one session per week for five weeks.

The study concluded that there is no difference in the outcome of the treatment in terms of effectiveness and side effects.

A second study, details of which were published in The Lancet Oncology, focused on the comparison between a popular approach based on 15 sessions within three weeks and a new one limited to five sessions within five days. The study did not find any difference between the two approaches.

Based on these two studies, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, European experts in radiology have come together to promote this accelerated approach.

“In the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, it is very right that women come to the hospital with as few visits as possible,” said Dr. Sofia Rivera, head of the Department of Radiology at the Gustave Rossi Institute.

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