Imaging for early stage breast cancer

Key to success of APBI

3 pillars of APBI

Brachytherapy

EBRT

IORT

✓

Multicatheter – interstitial Brachytherapy

✓

3-D-CRT

✓

X-ray 50 kV (Intrabeam)

✓

Single-catheter – Brachytherapy ✓

✓

IMRT

Proxima-Catheter

✓

SAVI-Catheter

✓

Linac - electrons

✓

Contura-Catheter

✓

Cyberknife?

✓

Electronic Brachytherapy

✓

Protons?

✓

Seeds brachytherapy

✓

Electronic brachytherapy

✓

Non-invasive brachytherapy

Patient selection

Target definition

Appropriate technique

University Hospital Erlangen