Prone versus Supine Positioning for Breast Cancer Radiotherapy in Patients with Pendulous Breast

Abstract

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women, surgical treatment for breast cancer had traditionally been radical mastectomy. Over the past decade, the decrease in death rates from breast cancer is largely attributed to the improvements in early detection and treatment. Women presented with early stage breast cancer have the option of electing breast-conserving surgery with adjuvant whole breast irradiation and has been shown in several large randomized controlled trials to yield local control and survival rates equivalent to those of mastectomy.