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Lead
Hasselt University
Age
Any age
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
Diagnosis of noninvasive (Stage 0) or invasive (Stages 1, 2 or 3A) breast adenocarcinoma
Treatment with primary breast-sparing surgery (lumpectomy) and/ or neoadjuvant (preoperative) or adjuvant (postoperative) chemotherapy or hormonal treatment
Scheduled for postoperative radiotherapy with standard technique (isocentric) and fractionation regime (i.e., 25 daily fractions to the whole breast followed by a boost of 8 fractions to the tumor bed, 2 Gy per fraction, five times per week)
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You may not be if
Previous irradiation to the same breast
Metastatic disease
Mastectomy surgery
Concurrent chemo-radiotherapy
Required use of bolus material to deliver radiation therapy (i.e., material placed on the to-be-irradiated zone to modulate the delivered dose in order to ensure an optimal distribution of the radiation dose)
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