title: Management of inflammatory breast cancer: focus on radiotherapy with an evidence-based approach.
abstract: Inflammatory breast cancer represents a rare and extremely aggressive subtype of breast cancer. Due to its rarity, prospective studies are a difficult goal to obtain in this field. Nowadays a multimodal approach seems to be the standard approach. Role and timing of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are still debated issues. In this scenario interest is rising in molecular and target therapies. We performed a review analyzing the management of this unfavorable disease focusing on the role of radiotherapy, with particular emphasis on levels of evidence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation-Oncology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. v.scotti@dfc.unifi.it
authors.forename: Vieri
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Scotti
authors.forename: Isacco
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authors.lastname: Desideri
authors.forename: Icro
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authors.lastname: Meattini
authors.forename: Vanessa
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authors.lastname: Di Cataldo
authors.forename: Sara
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authors.lastname: Cecchini
authors.forename: Alessia
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authors.lastname: Petrucci
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authors.forename: Daniela
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authors.forename: Lorenzo
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authors.forename: Pierluigi
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authors.lastname: Bonomo
authors.forename: Giampaolo
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mesh_terms: D059248:Chemoradiotherapy; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D058922:Inflammatory Breast Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*