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Environmental And Social Benefits Of The Targeted Intraoperative Radiotherapy For Breast Cancer: Data From Uk Targit-A Trial Centres And Two Uk Nhs Hospitals Offering Targit Iort, N Coombs, J Coombs, U Vaidya, J Singer, M Bulsara, J Tobias, F Wenz, D Joseph, D Brown, R Rainsbury, T Davidson, D Adamson, S Massarut, D Morgan, I Potyka, T Corica, M Falzon, N Williams, M Baum, J Vaidya
Environmental And Social Benefits Of The Targeted Intraoperative Radiotherapy For Breast Cancer: Data From Uk Targit-A Trial Centres And Two Uk Nhs Hospitals Offering Targit Iort, N Coombs, J Coombs, U Vaidya, J Singer, M Bulsara, J Tobias, F Wenz, D Joseph, D Brown, R Rainsbury, T Davidson, D Adamson, S Massarut, D Morgan, I Potyka, T Corica, M Falzon, N Williams, M Baum, J Vaidya
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Objective: To quantify the journeys and CO2 emissions if women with breast cancer are treated with risk-adapted single-dose targeted intraoperative radiotherapy (TARGIT) rather than several weeks’ course of external beam whole breast radiotherapy (EBRT) treatment.
Setting: (1) TARGIT-A randomised clinical trial (ISRCTN34086741) which compared TARGIT with traditional EBRT and found similar breast cancer control, particularly when TARGIT was given simultaneously with lumpectomy, (2) 2 additional UK centres offering TARGIT.
Participants: 485 UK patients (249 TARGIT, 236 EBRT) in the prepathology stratum of TARGIT-A trial (where randomisation occurred before lumpectomy and TARGIT was delivered simultaneously with lumpectomy) for whom geographical data …