Cosmetic results in early stage breast cancer patients with high-dose brachitherapy after conservative surgery

Authors

  • Felipe Torres Instituto Nacional de Cancerología
  • Beatriz E. Pineda Instituto Nacional de Cancerología

Keywords:

breast neoplasms, radiotherapy, surgery, brachytherapy, esthetics, combined modality therap

Abstract

Purpose: to reveal cosmetic results in patients at early stages of low risk breast cancer, treated with partial accelerated radiotherapy using high dose rate brachytherapy.
Methods and materials: from march 2001 to July 2003,14 stages I and II breast cancer patients were treated at the Colombian national cancer institute in Bogotá with conservative surgery and radiotherapy upon the tumor bed (partial accelerated radiotherapy), using intersticial implants with iridium 192 (high dose rate brachytherapy) with a dose of 32 Gys, over 4 days, at 8 fractions twice a day.
Results: with an average follow up of 17.7 months, good cosmetic results were found among 71.4% of patients, and exellent results among 14.3% ofpatients. Furthermore, none of the patients neither local, nor regional, nor distant relapses.
Conclusion: among patients who suffer from breast cancer at early stages, it showed is possible to apply partial accelerated radiotherapy upon the tumor bed with high doses over 4 days with good to exellent cosmetic results.

Author Biographies

Felipe Torres, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología

Instituto Nacional de Cancerología E.S.E., Grupo de Radioterapia, Bogotá, D. C., Colombia.

Beatriz E. Pineda, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología

Instituto Nacional de Cancerología E.S.E., Grupo de Radioterapia, Bogotá, D. C., Colombia.

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Torres, F. and Pineda, B.E. 2004. Cosmetic results in early stage breast cancer patients with high-dose brachitherapy after conservative surgery. Revista Colombiana de Cancerología. 8, 1 (Mar. 2004), 15–21.

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