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01.03.2013 | Editorial
Is the simultaneously integrated boost (SIB) technique for early breast cancer ready to be adopted for routine adjuvant radiotherapy?
Statement of the German and the Austrian Societies of Radiooncology (DEGRO/ÖGRO)
verfasst von:
F. Sedlmayer, M.L. Sautter-Bihl, W. Budach, J. Dunst, P. Feyer, R. Fietkau, W. Haase, W. Harms, C. Rödel, R. Souchon, F. Wenz, R. Sauer, Breast Cancer Expert Panel of the German Society of Radiation Oncology (DEGRO)
Erschienen in:
Strahlentherapie und Onkologie
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Ausgabe 3/2013
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Excerpt
Adjuvant radiotherapy following breast conserving surgery (BCS) is usually performed by homogenous irradiation of the whole breast (WBI), using single doses of 1.8–2 Gy up to total doses around 50 Gy, mostly followed by a boost to the tumor bed considered as the area of highest subclinical tumor cell contamination [
19]. This tumor bed boost may be applied using external photon and/or electron beams up to cumulative tumor bed doses of 60–66 Gy in same fractional dose sizes as the preceding WBI. Alternatively, higher single fractions around 10 Gy are commonly used for either brachytherapy or intraoperative tumor bed boosts (IORT). …