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Keep this study
Lead
Hasselt University
With
Jessa Hospital
Age
Any age
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
Diagnosis of non-invasive (stage 0) or invasive (stage 1, 2 and 3A) breast adenocarcinoma
Treatment with primary breast-sparing surgery (lumpectomy) and/or neoadjuvant (preoperative) or adjuvant (postoperative) chemotherapy or hormonal therapy
Scheduled for postoperative radiotherapy with standard technique (isocentric) and fractionation regime (i.e. 25 daily fractions of 2 Gray to the whole breast followed by a boost of 8 fractions of 2 Gray to the tumor bed, 5/week)
Signed informed consent
You may not be if
Previous irradiation to the same breast
Metastatic disease
Concurrent chemotherapy
Required use of bolus material to deliver radiotherapy (i.e. material placed on the to- be-irradiated zone to modulate the delivered dose in order the ensure an optimal distribution of the radiation dose; mostly used for treatment of superficial tumors)
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