The purpose of this study is to find out if some patients with early-stage HER2 positive breast cancer can safely be treated with less chemotherapy than is generally used.
This study showed that surgery followed by low-dose radiation alone led to very good outcomes, similar to surgery with standard-dose radiation, preserving patients’ throat function and potentially sparing them unnecessary side effects.
Right now, researchers simply do not know whether one mammography method is better than another other at finding life-threatening breast cancers early.