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SUBMITTER: Wenz F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4608660 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wenz Frederik F Sedlmayer Felix F Herskind Carsten C Welzel Grit G Sperk Elena E Neumaier Christian C Gauter-Fleckenstein Benjamin B Vaidya Jayant S JS Sütterlin Marc M
Breast care (Basel, Switzerland) 20150715 4
Accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) has been under clinical investigation for more than 15 years. There are several technical approaches that are clinically established, e.g. brachytherapy, intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT), or external-beam radiotherapy. The understanding of the underlying biology, optimal technical procedures, patient selection criteria, and imaging changes during follow-up has increased enormously. After completion of several phase III trials using brachytherapy or ...[more]