TARGIT-E(lderly)—Prospective phase II study of intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) in elderly patients with small breast cancer

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Patients ≥ 70 years with small, low-risk breast cancer who are operated but not irradiated how local relapse rates around 4% after 4 years. With adjuvant whole breast radiotherapy (WBRT) the local relapse rate drops to 1% after 4 yea...

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Main Authors: Neumaier Christian, Elena Sperk, Grit Welzel, Yasser Abo-Madyan, Uta Kraus-Tiefenbacher, Anke Keller, Axel Gerhardt, Marc Sütterlin, Frederik Wenz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-05-01
Series:BMC Cancer
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/12/171