Breast Cancer

Research findings from G. Paganelli et al update understanding of breast cancer

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 18th, 2010

"External beam radiotherapy (EBRT) after conservative surgery for early breast cancer requires 5-7 weeks. For elderly patients and those distant from an RT center, attending for EBRT may be difficult or impossible," scientists in Milan, Italy report.

"We investigated local toxicity, cosmetic outcomes, and quality of life in a new breast irradiation technique-intraoperative avidination for radionuclide therapy (IART)-in which avidin is administered to the tumor bed and Y-90-labelled biotin later administered intravenously to bind the avidin and provide irradiation. Reduced duration EBRT (40 Gy) is given subsequently. After surgery, 50 (ten patients), 100 (15 patients) or...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2010-03-18)

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