Association Between Treatment With Brachytherapy vs Whole-Breast Irradiation and Subsequent Mastectomy, Complications, and Survival Among Older Women With Invasive Breast Cancer
Open Access
- 2 May 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 307 (17) , 1827-1837
Abstract
Brachytherapy is a means of delivering radiation using an implanted radioactive source and has been used to treat various malignancies. Recently, breast brachytherapy has emerged as an alternative to whole-breast irradiation (WBI), the standard radiation treatment after lumpectomy.1,2 Compared with WBI, brachytherapy irradiates less breast tissue and requires a much shorter course of treatment.Keywords
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