Breast

Assessment of role of age, size, lymphovascular emboli, estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, HER2neu Ki-67, grade and molecular classification were analyzed in their role as prognostic factors in respect to the events associated on follow up (recurrence, metastases, second malignancy or death) using-Pearson Chi-square method and logistic regression method for statistical analysis. Key words: 3D-CRT, IMRT, postmastectomy chest wall Abstract: 287 The impact of axillary lymph node dissection and conventional or hypofractionated adjuvant nodal irradiation on the risk of lymphedema in postmastectomy breast cancer patients: A prospective study Kartick Rastogi , Sandeep Jain, Aseem Rai Bhatnagar 1 , Shivani Gupta, R. K. Spartacus, Nikesh Agarwal, Sandeep Bhaskar, Kampra Gupta, Neeraj Sharma, Ajay Singh Chaudhary Department of Radiation Oncology, Sawai Man Singh Medical College and Attached Hospitals, 1 Linear Accelerator Center, Sawai Man Singh Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, E-mail: kartickrastogi17@gmail.com Introduction: To study the effect of axillary dissection and adjuvant nodal irradiation on the risk of lymphedema in breast cancer patients who underwent mastectomy.