Author

f/u*

(mo’s)

Treatment

n

Breast Failure (%)

Cosmesis

Total

True**

Elsewhere

Good

Excellent

Vaidya [111]

U College of London

24

kV photons

21 Gy (0.2 cm depth)

25

0%

0%

0%

N.R.

Veronesi [110]

European Inst Onc

19

Electrons

17 - 21 Gy, one fx

237

1.4%

0%

1.4%

N.R.

Instituto Europeo di Oncologia [110]

(ELIOT)

21

Electrons

20 Gy one fx

1246

3.3

2.4

0.9

N.R.

Instituto Europeo di Oncologia [111] [112] [116] (TARGIT)

29

50 kV x-rays

20 Gy one fx

1721

3.3

N.R

N.R.

N.R.