Radiation Therapy Options
Conventional External Beam Radiation
- High-energy beams pass through the skin to treat the entire breast and eliminate any cancer cells that could remain after a breast cancer tumor is removed (lumpectomy).
- A daily dose of radiation is delivered for 5-7 weeks.
MammoSite® 5-Day Targeted Radiation Therapy
- Radiation therapy is delivered from inside the breast directly to the area where cancer is most likely to recur.3
- Targeting the area from the inside out reduces the exposure of normal, healthy tissue and organs to radiation.
- Using a highly targeted dose, radiation treatment is complete in 5 days.
- Side effects such as skin burning and fatigue are minimized.
- Most women continue normal activities through and immediately following treatment.
Delivering radiation from inside the body – also called “brachytherapy” – is used to treat many cancers. For example, use of brachytherapy as a treatment of prostate cancer goes back as far as 1917, and has been the standard of care for prostate cancer for several decades.
Gail Free, Greenwood, SC
“Cancer is not a breeze, but going through (MammoSite) treatment was so easy.”
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In the following videos, Dr. Munoz, radiation oncologist, will discuss the importance of access to radiation therapy and how MammoSite may expand the use of radiation treatment to more women.
Access to radiation therapy MammoSite Therapy can be completed in 5 days