Ten-Year Results of Accelerated Partial-Breast Irradiation withInterstitial Multicatheter Brachytherapy afterBreast-Conserving Surgery for Low-Risk Early Breast Cancer

Abstract

Patients with an early carcinoma of the breast are commonly treated by breast-conserving surgery (BCS) and postoperative radiotherapy. Partial-breast irradiation has gained acceptance in the last few years. Between December 2008 and December 2017, 182 low-risk breast cancer patients treated by BCS in the four university hospitals of the province of Las Palmas and treated with APBI using interstitial multicatheter brachytherapy were included in this study. After a mean follow-up for survivors of 10 years, the treatment was shown to be safe, as no severe acute/late toxicity (grade ≥ 3) was observed. The 10-year IBTR was 1.7% (95%CI: 0.7-2.7%), and the cause-specific survival was 94.9% (95%CI: 93.2-96.6%). We suggest that multicatheter brachytherapy after BCS is safe and effective in early breast cancer patients.

Keywords: brachytherapy; breast cancer; early breast cancer; partial-breast irradiation.