Abstract
Hypofractionated whole breast irradiation (HWBI) has been firmly established as a standard of care for postlumpectomy radiation for early-stage breast cancer, based in large part on the favorable 10-year results of prospective randomized trials from Canada and the United Kingdom. In the United States and other countries, the question now is no longer whether or not to do hypofractionation, but rather to which patients this should be offered instead of conventional fractionation. This chapter will review the criteria for patient selection to be used for the inclusion and exclusion of patients for whole breast hypofractionation in clinical practice today.
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Freedman, G.M. (2016). Patient Selection for Hypofractionated Whole Breast Radiation Therapy for Treatment of Early-Stage Breast Cancer. In: Arthur, D., Vicini, F., Wazer, D., Khan, A. (eds) Short Course Breast Radiotherapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24388-7_8
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