Purpose The GEC-ESTRO has reported the equivalent outcomes of partial breast irradiation (PBI) using multicatheter interstitial brachytherapy (MCB) to whole breast irradiation (WBI) in breast-conserving therapy (BCT). We performed single-stage BCT with partial breast brachytherapy by intraoperative catheter placement. After the categorization of patients into inclusion and exclusion criteria on...

PURPOSE Breast conserving surgery (BCS) followed by whole breast irradiation (WBI) is the standard of care for breast cancer patients. However, there is a risk of coronary events with WBI therapy. In this study, we compared the radiation dose in the left anterior descending artery (LAD) in patients receiving partial breast irradiation (PBI) with WBI. MATERIAL AND METHODS We evaluated consecut...

AbstractPurpose The purpose of the study was to describe our institutional experience with accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) using multicatheter brachytherapy high-dose-rate. We report 5-year survival outcomes, cosmesis, and treatment-related toxicity. Methods Materials This included a retrospective review patients who underwent breast-conserving surgery f...

PURPOSE In this study two different pre-planning methods (2D vs. 3D) were compared in respect to the implant quality as judged by volumetric and dose parameters of the treatment plans. The aim of this work was to evaluate the influence of the imaging modalities used for pre-planning purpose to the treatment plan quality. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty-four patients treated with HDR multicatheter...

BACKGROUND Breast cancers are more frequently diagnosed at an early stage and currently have improved long term outcomes. Late normal tissue complications induced by adjuvant radiotherapy like secondary cancers or cardiomyopathy must now be avoided at all cost. Several new breast radiotherapy techniques have been developed and this work aims at comparing the scatter doses of internal organs for...

PURPOSE To investigate the interobserver variations in delineation of lumpectomy cavity (LC) and clinical target volume (CTV), and its impact on irradiated volume in accelerated partial breast irradiation using intraoperative multicatheter brachytherapy. MATERIAL AND METHODS Delineation of LC and CTV was done by five radiation oncologists on planning computed tomography (CT) scans of 20 patie...