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Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation

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Results from two decades of study have conclusively shown that radiation therapy hasan important role in ensuring local control for patients with early-stage breast cancerwho are treated with breast-conserving surgery. When breast-conservation therapy wasfirst explored as an alternative to mastectomy, many trials investigated whether surgicalresection of the tumor-bearing region of the breast was sufficient, or whether adjuvantirradiation of the entire breast would be required to improve patient outcome. Thesetrials showed that whole-breast irradiation significantly reduced the risk of ipsilateral tumorrecurrence after resection of the tumor and the tissue immediately surrounding thetumor (Fisher et al. 2002a; Veronesi et al. 2001; Vinh-Hung...
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