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. 2003 Dec;12(6):491-6.
doi: 10.1016/s0960-9776(03)00157-7.

MammoSite radiation therapy system

Oscar E Streeter Jr  1 , Frank A Vicini, Martin Keisch, Melvin A Astrahan, Gabor Jozsef, Melvin Silverstein, Howard Silberman, Deirdre Cohen, Kristin A Skinner
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MammoSite radiation therapy system

Oscar E Streeter Jr et al. Breast. 2003 Dec.

Abstract

The MammoSite Radiation Therapy System (RTS) has become the most widely used brachytherapy method used in the treatment of breast cancer, due to its ease of use, short learning curve, and requirement of only one interstitial path through the breast skin. The dosimetry is simple, one source position in the middle of the MammoSite balloon catheter. The data on long-term complications, however are not available, though developing. Trials for DCIS are being developed, as well as a comparison trial to standard external beam radiation as well as other forms of accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI).

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