Accelerated partial breast irradiation : techniques and clinical implementation

Contents: Accelerated partial breast irradiation: history, rationale, and controversies / Thomas A. Buchholz and Eric A. Strom -- Who is a candidate for APBI? / Douglas W. Arthur, Frank A. Vicini and David E. Wazer -- Pathologic anatomy of early-stage breast cancer and its relevance to APBI: defining the target / Shruti Jolly, Larry L. Kestin, Neal S. Goldstein and Frank A. Vicini -- The radiobiology of accelerated partial breast irradiation / Alexandra Stewart and Roger Dale -- Surgical considerations in partial breast irradiation / Alan Stolier -- Physics of accelerated partial breast irradiation / Rupak K. Das and Bruce Thomadsen -- Quality assurance for accelerated partial breast irradiation / Bruce Thomadsen and Rupak Das -- Overview of North American trials / Rakesh R. Patel and Sushil Beriwal -- An overview of European clinical trials of APBI / Csaba Polgár, Tibor Major, Vratislav Strnad, Peter Niehoff, Oliver J. Ott, Katalin Lövey and György Kovács -- The Phase III Trials: obtaining definitive answers / Douglas W. Arthur -- The Virginia Commonwealth University technique of interstitial brachytherapy / Laurie W. Cuttino and Douglas W. Arthur -- Accelerated partial breast irradiation: the William Beaumont Hospital technique of interstitial brachytherapy / Peter Y. Chen -- Brachytherapy techniques: the Arizona approach / Robert R. Kuske -- The MammoSite technique for accelerated partial breast irradiation / Martin Keisch and Frank A. Vicini -- Permanent breast seed implants / Jean-Philippe Pignol and Brian M. Keller -- 3D conformal external-beam technique / Yasmin Hasan and Frank A. Vicini -- External-beam partial breast irradiation: the New York University prone technique / Silvia Formenti and Stella Lymberis -- APBI 3D conformal external beam: the MGH technique / Shannon M. MacDonald, David P. Gierga, Brian Napolitano and Alphonse G. Taghian -- APBI with 50 kV photons: targeted intraoperative radiotherapy (TARGIT) / Jayant S. Vaidya -- APBI intraoperative technique with electrons / Roberto Orecchia, Giovanni B. Ivaldi and Maria C. Leonardi -- Intraoperative radiation therapy during breast-conserving surgery; the Memorial Sloan -- Kettering Cancer Center technique / Kathryn Beal, Gil'ad N. Cohen, Beryl McCormick, Virgilio Sacchini and Michael Zelefsky -- Normal tissue toxicity after accelerated partial breast irradiation / David E. Wazer and Jaroslaw T. Hepel -- Emerging technologies Part I: New brachytherapy catheter systems / Rakesh R. Patel and Adam Dickler -- Emerging technologies Part II: Novel sources and delivery systems / Jaroslaw T. Hepel, Shirin Sioshansi, Mark J. Rivard and David E. Wazer.