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Comment
. 2020 Dec;17(12):723-724.
doi: 10.1038/s41571-020-00444-2.

Intraoperative radiotherapy for early breast cancer - insufficient evidence to change practice

Peter D Sasieni  1 , Elinor J Sawyer  2
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Comment

Intraoperative radiotherapy for early breast cancer - insufficient evidence to change practice

Peter D Sasieni et al. Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2020 Dec.

Abstract

We argue that the evidence remains insufficient for use of intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) in women with early stage breast cancer outside of a clinical trial, as the recently reported TARGIT-A trial does not provide sufficient evidence to conclude that IORT is superior to no radiotherapy.

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