Trials show older women with the lowest-risk breast cancers gain almost nothing from radiotherapy after lumpectomy. Yet most still get it. Track and reward omission.
LUMINA, PRIME II and IDEA show low local recurrence without radiotherapy in luminal A breast tumours in older women, yet most still receive it, so this idea makes omission the default pathway, with PAM50 genomic confirmation where needed, and tracks it as a quality metric. The evidence exists; the barrier is inertia and fee-for-service incentives, so payers would measure omission rate and five-year local recurrence. The test is a stepped-wedge implementation across cancer centres with registry follow-up. Being tested at scale, it addresses the bottlenecks Overdiagnosis and false alarms, Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued and Incentives reward me-too drugs and marginal gains.
This is the paper Europe PMC returns for registry id NCT01791829 with the most citations, so it is the natural first reading for anyone following the LUMINA trial. Read the abstract above alongside the trial page and the registry entry; the record was linked automatically and its figures have not been checked by hand.
One bottleneck page and 21 idea pages on OnCo cite this paper by its DOI; this record gives the citation a page of its own so a reader can follow it without leaving OnCo. Read the abstract above alongside the citing pages listed under Related; the record was created automatically from the Europe PMC entry and its figures have not been checked by hand.
Shares One week of breast radiotherapy in five treatments as the default after surgery, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, Incentives reward me-too drugs and marginal gains and the tags protocol-upgrade, upgrade:proven-unevenly-used.
Shares One week of breast radiotherapy in five treatments as the default after surgery and the tags protocol-upgrade, upgrade:proven-unevenly-used.
Shares Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued and the tags protocol-upgrade, upgrade:proven-unevenly-used.
Shares Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued and the tags protocol-upgrade, upgrade:proven-unevenly-used.
Shares Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued and the tags protocol-upgrade, upgrade:proven-unevenly-used.
Shares Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued and the tags protocol-upgrade, upgrade:proven-unevenly-used.
Shares Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued and the tags protocol-upgrade, upgrade:proven-unevenly-used.
Shares HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer and the tags protocol-upgrade, upgrade:proven-unevenly-used.
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