Breast cancer: One-dose radiotherapy 'as effective as full course'
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The study's lead author, Prof Jayant Vaidya, said he had expected a proportion of the women to need extra radiotherapy, since post-op tests could reveal tumours were bigger or more aggressive than expected. This type of radiotherapy, developed by doctors at University College London , is delivered using a small device placed inside the breast, directly on the site of the cancer.
This treatment is already available on the NHS in a small number of clinics that have the right equipment. UCL said previous studies had shown the treatment also had fewer radiation-related side-effects, including pain and changes to the breast's appearance.Writer Marcelle Bernstein received the one-off treatment eight years ago, and has had the all-clear ever since.Marcelle Bernstein said she liked the idea of"treating just the tiny area affected"
However, 20% of the women in the study given a single dose of radiation did go on to have further radiotherapy treatments, when tests discovered"unsuspected higher-risk factors".Joanne Haviland at the Institute of Cancer Research raised concerns about some of the definitions the researchers used in their study.
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