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Voluntary Breath-hold Technique for Reducing Heart Dose in Left Breast Radiotherapy
Published on: July 3, 2014
[Debate about breast cancer: "Cons: Intraoperative radiotherapy"]
C Bourgier1, S Heymann, R Verstraet
1Département de radiothérapie, institut Gustave-Roussy, 114, rue Édouard-Vaillant, 94800 Villejuif, France.
Abstract:
Early breast cancer incidence increases owing to mammography screening. Hypofractionated radiotherapy is more and more proposed in women with low local relapse risk breast cancer, especially accelerated partial breast irradiation. Various irradiation modalities have been reported: brachytherapy, intraoperative irradiation, 3D-conformal accelerated partial breast irradiation. We describe limitations of intraoperative irradiation and the advantages of alternative techniques.
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