The use of high dose rate brachytherapy with Ir 192 in treatment of localized breast cancer

Abstract

Thanks to the introduction of new screening programs, the emergence rate of novel anticancer drugs and the detection rate of early-stage breast cancer in Russia increase year by year. Organ preservation treatment, after which radiation therapy has to be performed, is the most common type of surgical treatment used in this cohort of patients. Today, various treatment methods are used, the most common is external beam radiation therapy, however, brachytherapy of breast cancer is also used.

Keywords

• early-stage breast cancer
• radiation therapy
• brachytherapy
• dosage regimens
• tolerance doses.