title: ACR Appropriateness Criteria® conservative surgery and radiation--stage I and II breast carcinoma: expert panel on radiation oncology: breast.
abstract: Breast conservation is a safe and effective alternative to mastectomy for the majority of women with early-stage breast cancer. Adjuvant radiation therapy lowers the risk of recurrence within the breast and also confers a survival benefit. Although acute side effects of radiation therapy are generally well tolerated; efforts are ongoing to minimize the long-term side effects of radiation, most prominently atherosclerotic heart disease. Efforts to minimize radiation therapy are also underway. They include omitting treatment altogether in the elderly and using accelerated, hypofractionated whole-breast irradiation, and accelerated partial-breast irradiation. Several randomized studies are ongoing to determine the efficacy, safety, and appropriate patients for these shorter treatments.
authors.affiliation: Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. jbellon@lroc.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Jennifer R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Bellon
authors.forename: Eleanor E R
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Harris
authors.forename: Douglas W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Arthur
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bailey
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Carey
authors.forename: Sharad
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goyal
authors.forename: Michele Y
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Halyard
authors.forename: Kathleen C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Horst
authors.forename: Meena S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Moran
authors.forename: Shannon M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: MacDonald
authors.forename: Bruce G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Haffty
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery; D000075202:Contraindications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015412:Mastectomy, Segmental; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D059351:Organ Sparing Treatments / Q000592:standards*; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant / Q000592:standards