Would you consider hypofractionated weekly whole breast irradiation for early stage breast cancer?
A word of warning to those who are still "struggling" with the concept of modest, daily HFRT for post-menopausal, biologically-favorable early-stage breast cancer, your mind is about to be blown...FAST! "Once a week??!! Where did this come from??!" is a question I've heard not a few people asking ov...
A cautionary note about hypofractionation for breast cancer as well as other diseases. There is little doubt that long term normal tissue effects are increased, particularly for nervous system tissue. The reason hypofractionation is effective in so many instances has to do with the small volumes tre...
The data for breast cancer RT is emerging more rapidly than people are ready to change. As pointed out that 5 yrs data of Italian study with APBI using 30 Gy in 5 fractions with IMRT was similar to 6 weeks RT . With so many options emerging hypofractionation ( 3 weeks) to which people are still relu...