Accelerated partial breast irradiation using interstitial high dose rate ¹⁹²iridium brachytherapy: Early Australian experience and review of the literature

Authors: Stevens; Cooper; Cross; Wang

Source: Australasian Radiology, Volume 50, Number 2, April 2006 , pp. 143-151(9)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

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Abstract:

Summary

Accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) is an evolving new technique of adjuvant irradiation in selected women with early-stage breast cancer. We developed a pilot programme of APBI in 2000 and report end results in seven patients followed for a mean of 42.7 months (range 29–55 months). Good to excellent cosmesis and no loco-regional relapse or systemic metastases have occurred. The literature related to APBI is reviewed.

Keywords: brachytherapy; partial breast irradiation

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.2006.01558.x

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Accelerated partial breast irradiation using interstitial high dose rate 192iridium brachytherapy: Early Australian experience and review of the literature

Accelerated partial breast irradiation using interstitial high dose rate ¹⁹²iridium brachytherapy: Early Australian experience and review of the literature