[New external radiotherapy technologies for breast cancer]

Cancer Radiother. 2014 Oct;18(5-6):480-5. doi: 10.1016/j.canrad.2014.06.018. Epub 2014 Aug 31.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The purpose of new radiotherapy techniques is to better deliver dose conformation in the tumour volume while diminishing organs at risk exposition. Their development is soaring in the breast cancer field in the adjuvant setting with intensity-modulated radiation therapy but also in cerebral and extracerebral oligometastastic presentation. Their usage is still being debated for breast cancer care. The objective of this narrative review is to list and discuss clinical data at our disposal for these news technologies.

Keywords: Breast cancer; Cancer du sein; IMRT; Oligometastases; Oligométastases; RCMI; Radiation therapy; Radiochirurgie; Radiosurgery; Radiothérapie.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Brain Neoplasms / radiotherapy
  • Brain Neoplasms / secondary
  • Brain Neoplasms / surgery
  • Breast Neoplasms / radiotherapy*
  • Breast Neoplasms / surgery
  • Clinical Trials as Topic
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Cranial Irradiation / methods
  • Epidemiologic Studies
  • Female
  • Heart / radiation effects
  • Humans
  • Lung / radiation effects
  • Mastectomy / methods
  • Neoplasm Metastasis
  • Neoplasms, Second Primary / etiology
  • Organs at Risk
  • Radiosurgery
  • Radiotherapy, Adjuvant / adverse effects
  • Radiotherapy, Adjuvant / methods*
  • Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated / adverse effects
  • Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated / methods
  • Therapies, Investigational