Commentary Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/breastcancer.1.004
Commentary on: The actual benefit of intraoperative radiation therapy using 50 kV x-rays in early breast cancer: A retrospective study of 676 patients
Félix Felici1, Gilles Houvenaeghel2, Monique Cohen2, Agnès Tallet1,*
- 1Department of Radiation-Oncology, Institute Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France
- 2Department of Surgical Oncology, Institute Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France
Corresponding Author
Agnès Tallet, talleta@ipc.unicancer.fr
Received Date: December 11, 2020
Accepted Date: December 29, 2020
Felici F, Houvenaeghel G, Cohen M, Tallet A. Commentary on: The actual benefit of intraoperative radiation therapy using 50 kV x-rays in early breast cancer: A retrospective study of 676 patients. J Breast Cancer Res 2020; 1(1):14-16.
Copyright: © 2020 Felici F, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords
Breast cancer, Intraoperative radiation therapy, Partial-breast irradiation, COVID-19
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Commentary on: The actual benefit of intraoperative radiation therapy using 50 kV x-rays in early breast cancer: A retrospective study of 676 patients
We recently published the results of a retrospective multicenter study of 676 early breast cancer patients with favorable prognostic factors, treated by breast-conservative surgery and intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT). This study confirmed that partial breast irradiation (PBI) using IORT via a 50 kV photon device is safe and well-tolerated in select early breast cancer patients.