Breast Radiotherapy Articles & Analysis
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Dirbas in 2002 was an early adopter of accelerated, partial breast irradiation for surgical patients with early-stage breast cancer and served as Primary Investigator (PI) on Stanford’s successful investigator initiated APBI trial: he has also served as site-PI for other cooperative group trials related to breast cancer. From 2010 to 2017 ...
Our Medical Director of the Oncology Breast Program, Dr. Beth DuPree, was first in the U.S. to adopt VeraForm, a continuous, radiopaque 3D tissue marker. Within months, its utility led to quick integration into our program’s standard daily practice. Like all centers today, patient satisfaction is a focal point and to date, we have seen no complications or toxicities by any criteria (e.g., ...
It’s always been distressing to explain to surgeons that their meticulously placed lumpectomy clips are much less useful to radiation oncologists than they originally perceived. Maybe it’s because of the desperate appreciation that radiation oncologists express when even one clip is left behind. In this current era of de-escalating therapies, patients receiving breast radiation ...