Re: Accelerated partial breast irradiation as part of breast conserving therapy of early breast carcinoma: a systematic review.

摘要

Dear Editor,We congratulate Offersen et al. for the excellent overview on partial breast irradiation (pbi) [1]. Common for all radiation techniques is the desire for good dose homogeneity inside the target volume. We would like to draw attention to the aspect of dose homogeneity for a special subgroup of pbi techniques, namely intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT). We recently compared the dosimetric properties of four techniques [2]: IORT with electrons (IOERT), an orthovolt system (Intrabeam), interstitial brachytherapy, and brachytherapy using the MammoSite system.