Imaging for early stage breast cancer

Less local treatment: where is the limit?

Side effects

21 st C, only local RT: - 7 → 5 → 3 → 1 weeks - Lowered - No boost ➔ low - Unlikely - Unlikely - Seldom - Less for older pts/proper techniques

Radiation therapy: - Inconvenience - Skin - Breast tissue - Pulmonary - Heart - Secondary tumours - CL breast: more