Introduction: External radiation therapy has been the fundamental pillar when treating breast cancer. Partial radiation therapy and intraoperative radiation treatment have created modifications that allow the irradiat...Introduction: External radiation therapy has been the fundamental pillar when treating breast cancer. Partial radiation therapy and intraoperative radiation treatment have created modifications that allow the irradiation of the breast to be performed at the surgical act delivering a single large fraction or a “boost” dose directly at the tumor bed. We will discuss patients treated with INTRABEAM (Carl Zeiss Surgical Oberkochen, Germany) at the “Mastology Unit at Leopoldo Aguerrevere Clinic”. Materials and Methods: The selection of patients is crucial for the success of the treatment, same protocol of treatment has been applied to every patient at the surgical act. Since September 2013 until February 2015, we have treated a total of 148 patients with the INTRABEAM unit, we will discuss the 114 patients treated by the team at the “Mastology Unit at Leopoldo Aguerrevere Clinic” with ages between 31 and 87 years in which 46% were single treatments and 54% were treated as a “boost” for external radiation therapy. Results: The procedure has been well tolerated with only a 17% of transient fibrosis and a 12% of seromas. We have had none mayor complications like dehiscence of the wound or necrosis of the borders. Conclusion: With this preliminary presentation, we would like to demonstrate that the technique and protocol used at our mastology unit with the intraoperative radiation treatment is safe and has many advantages to the patients including better comfort, cost-effective and with results comparable to external radiotherapy.展开更多
Traditional brachytherapy refers to the placement of radioactive sources on or inside the cancer tissues.Based on the type of sources,brachytherapy can be classified as radionuclide and electronic brachytherapy.Electr...Traditional brachytherapy refers to the placement of radioactive sources on or inside the cancer tissues.Based on the type of sources,brachytherapy can be classified as radionuclide and electronic brachytherapy.Electronic brachytherapy uses miniaturized X-raysources instead of radionuclides to deliver high doses of radiation.The advantages of electronic brachytherapy include low dose to organs at risk,reduced dose to treating staff,no leakage radiation in off state,less shielding,and no radioactive waste.Most of these systems operate between 50 and 100 k Vp and are widely used in the treatment of skin cancer.Intrabeam,Xoft and Papillon systems are also used in the treatment of intra-operative radiotherapy to breast in addition to other treatment sites.The rapid fall-off in the dose due to its low energy is a highly desirable property in brachytherapy and results in a reduced dose to the surrounding normal tissues compared to the Ir-192 source.The Xoft Axxent brachytherapy system uses a 2.25 mm miniaturized X-ray tube and the source almost mimics the high dose rate Ir-192 source in terms of dose rate and it is the only electronic brachytherapy system specifically used in the treatment of cervical cancers.One of the limiting factors that impede the use of electronic brachytherapy for interstitial application is the source dimension.However,it is highly anticipated that the design of miniaturized X-ray tube closer to the dimension of an Ir-192 wire is not too far away,and the new era of electronic brachytherapy has just begun.展开更多
文摘Introduction: External radiation therapy has been the fundamental pillar when treating breast cancer. Partial radiation therapy and intraoperative radiation treatment have created modifications that allow the irradiation of the breast to be performed at the surgical act delivering a single large fraction or a “boost” dose directly at the tumor bed. We will discuss patients treated with INTRABEAM (Carl Zeiss Surgical Oberkochen, Germany) at the “Mastology Unit at Leopoldo Aguerrevere Clinic”. Materials and Methods: The selection of patients is crucial for the success of the treatment, same protocol of treatment has been applied to every patient at the surgical act. Since September 2013 until February 2015, we have treated a total of 148 patients with the INTRABEAM unit, we will discuss the 114 patients treated by the team at the “Mastology Unit at Leopoldo Aguerrevere Clinic” with ages between 31 and 87 years in which 46% were single treatments and 54% were treated as a “boost” for external radiation therapy. Results: The procedure has been well tolerated with only a 17% of transient fibrosis and a 12% of seromas. We have had none mayor complications like dehiscence of the wound or necrosis of the borders. Conclusion: With this preliminary presentation, we would like to demonstrate that the technique and protocol used at our mastology unit with the intraoperative radiation treatment is safe and has many advantages to the patients including better comfort, cost-effective and with results comparable to external radiotherapy.
文摘Traditional brachytherapy refers to the placement of radioactive sources on or inside the cancer tissues.Based on the type of sources,brachytherapy can be classified as radionuclide and electronic brachytherapy.Electronic brachytherapy uses miniaturized X-raysources instead of radionuclides to deliver high doses of radiation.The advantages of electronic brachytherapy include low dose to organs at risk,reduced dose to treating staff,no leakage radiation in off state,less shielding,and no radioactive waste.Most of these systems operate between 50 and 100 k Vp and are widely used in the treatment of skin cancer.Intrabeam,Xoft and Papillon systems are also used in the treatment of intra-operative radiotherapy to breast in addition to other treatment sites.The rapid fall-off in the dose due to its low energy is a highly desirable property in brachytherapy and results in a reduced dose to the surrounding normal tissues compared to the Ir-192 source.The Xoft Axxent brachytherapy system uses a 2.25 mm miniaturized X-ray tube and the source almost mimics the high dose rate Ir-192 source in terms of dose rate and it is the only electronic brachytherapy system specifically used in the treatment of cervical cancers.One of the limiting factors that impede the use of electronic brachytherapy for interstitial application is the source dimension.However,it is highly anticipated that the design of miniaturized X-ray tube closer to the dimension of an Ir-192 wire is not too far away,and the new era of electronic brachytherapy has just begun.
