Breast cancer: One-dose radiotherapy 'as effective as full course'

Breast cancer: One-dose radiotherapy 'as effective as full course' A single targeted dose of radiotherapy could be as effective at treating breast cancer as a full course, a long-term study suggests.

Researchers said people who received the shorter treatment were also less likely to die of other cancers and heart disease in the following five years.

But cancer specialists have raised concerns about the study's methodology. BBC News

See also:

• Long term survival and local control outcomes from single dose targeted intraoperative radiotherapy during lumpectomy (TARGIT-IORT) for early breast cancer: TARGIT-A randomised clinical trial (open access) The BMJ
• Single-dose radiotherapy as effective for treating breast cancer, long-term study finds University College London