The Breast Care Center
Breast Radiation
Breast cancer treatment involves breast cancer surgery and radiation treatment. Sometimes your doctors will recommend chemotherapy.
Short Course Radiation Treatment vs. Long Course Radiation Treatment
During radiation treatment, your doctors will try to destroy any remaining cancer cells. Typically, breast cancer patients would have a long course of radiation treatment—more than a month of daily radiation treatments with a greater exposure of the breast.
At the Breast Care Center, our team is studying the effectiveness of a short course of radiation therapy. The short course would use higher doses of radiation, to a smaller part of the breast, delivered during a shorter period of time.
Partial Breast Irradiation
Partial breast irradiation treats part of the breast twice a day for 4 to 5 days. External beam radiation is used.
Brachytherapy
This is a form of radiation therapy that delivers the radiation through implanted needles, or through a small implant placed inside the post-lumpectomy surgery site.