What are your considerations in choosing partial breast irradiation versus external beam hypofractionated whole breast RT for early stage breast cancer?

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...

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...