Imaging for early stage breast cancer

APBI techniques

Techniques

➢ Invasive

➢ Brachytherapy

➢ With a balloon (MammoSite): 192 Ir HDR 34 GY, 10 #, 2/d : 5 d

! Only 20-25% of patients after lumpectomy can be treated with the mammoSite technique

Pawlik et al. Cancer 2004 ; 100:490-8