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Breast Cancer • Radiation Oncology
What are your considerations in choosing partial breast irradiation versus external beam hypofractionated whole breast RT for early stage breast cancer?
Are there any situations where a patient is a suitable candidate for ABPI but you still encourage standard whole breast hypofractionation?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
Accelerated partial breast irradiation has become a standard of care option for appropriately selected patients. Currently, patients who can be offered APBI come from the ASTRO guidelines or the more recently updated ABS partial breast guidelines released.In general, I will consider APBI for node ne...
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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
Partial breast irradiation can be delivered via EBRT, IORT, HDR, and electronic brachytherapy.As far as who would be a good candidate for PBI, ASTRO updated their consensus statement and made a few changes, but patients that they consider to be "cautionary" or "unsuitable" may be neither, based on i...
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Radiation Oncologist at Cleveland Clinic
It is important that IORT is viewed differently by...
It is important that IORT is viewed differently by...
Radiation Oncologist at Lake Huron Medical Center
Absolutely agree. All are different and have diffe...
Absolutely agree. All are different and have diffe...