Imaging for early stage breast cancer

Clinical experience with the SAVI brachytherapy applicator

SAVI applicator with very close skin margin

skin dose is kept low

Almost half of evaluated patients were not candidates for other single-entry brachytherapy devices because of skin spacing or breast size, demonstrating an expansion of candidates for single-entry partial breast brachytherapy

Yashar et al. Brachytherapy 8:367-372. 2009