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Topic: Radiation Therapy (view all topics)

Tags for topic Radiation Therapy:

• 3-D conformal external beam radiation (also called 3DCRT)
• After surgery
• Before surgery
• Brain
• Breast
• Dose-Dense
• External
• Internal (also called "brachytherapy")
• Low-Dose
• Lymph nodes
• Standard (most typical)

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• Older Women Have More Complications from Brachytherapy Compared to Whole-Breast Radiation

  Published on November 7, 2012 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: Dose-Dense, Standard (most typical), Breast, After surgery, 3-D conformal external beam radiation (also called 3DCRT), and Internal (also called "brachytherapy")

  A study suggests that older women who have brachytherapy are more likely to have complications in the year after treatment compared to women who had whole-breast irradiation.

• Accelerated Radiation May Be as Good as Standard Schedule to Lower DCIS Recurrence Risk

  Published on July 31, 2012 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: External, Dose-Dense, After surgery, and Breast

  Research suggests that a shorter, higher-dose radiation schedule after lumpectomy to remove DCIS may reduce recurrence risk just as much as a standard radiation treatment schedule.