Targeted intraoperative radiotherapy, also known as targeted IORT, is a technique for delivering radiotherapy to the tissues surrounding a cancer after its surgical removal, a form of intraoperative radiation therapy designed in 1998 at University College London. One such technique is known as TARGIT (TARGeted Intraoperative radioTherapy), in which radiation is applied during the operation itself and targeted specifically to the peri-tumoural tissue; the TARGIT technique was designed at University College London by Jayant S. Vaidya, who coined the TARGIT acronym, together with Michael Baum and Jeffrey S. Tobias in 1998, when the term was first used to describe it.
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How did targeted intraoperative radiotherapy compare with external beam radiotherapy for local recurrence in the TARGIT-A trial?
The 5-year local recurrence risk was 3.3 percent with TARGIT versus 1.3 percent with external beam radiotherapy.
In the TARGIT-A trial, the 5-year risk of local recurrence in the conserved breast was 3.3 percent with targeted intraoperative radiotherapy, versus 1.3 percent with external beam radiotherapy (p=0.042). This records what the trial reported and is not medical advice.
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Targeted intra-operative radiotherapy, also known as targeted IORT, is a technique of giving radiotherapy to the tissues surrounding a cancer after its surgical removal, a form of intraoperative radiation therapy.
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The technique was designed in 1998 at the University College London.
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Targeted intra-operative radiotherapy, also known as targeted IORT, is a technique of giving radiotherapy to the tissues surrounding a cancer after its surgical removal, a form of intraoperative radiation therapy.
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