In your experience, is a bra worn during radiation treatment for large-breasted patients ever beneficial?

Topics: Breast Cancer • Radiation Oncology

Is a bra that can be worn during treatment and indexed ever advisable for patients with large breasts who are otherwise unable to do prone treatment?

Are there downsides (e.g., increased scatter) to industrially created radiation bras? If so, what other methods to create space at the inframammary fold should be considered?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice

I have used styrofoam wedges in the infra-mammary fold to reduce the effect of skin folds. I would suggest placing these wedges in a fixed position with markings to help reproduce the position.It's also important to realize that in order to reduce the risk of treatment-related morbidity, one can als...

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Radiation Oncologist at Rush University Medical Center
I’ve used the same. In fact, we’ve cut...

Radiation Oncologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
There are no good solutions to this problem in the...

Radiation Oncologist at Mon Health
Thank you, that was very helpful.

Radiation Oncologist at RadiantCare
There are proprietary products out there for this ...

Radiation Oncologist at Kingston Health Sciences Centre
Thank you! Didn't know about the Chabner bra!

Radiation Oncologist at Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Yes, we have started using the Chabner bra regular...

Radiation Oncologist at Wellspan Sechler Family Cancer Center
Chamber bra looks great! I have also had good luck...

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