Description
Treatment-related morbidities have been linked to the large post-operative treatment volumes required for external beam partial breast irradiation (PBI). Alternative PBI techniques require equipment that is not readily available. To address these issues, we designed a phase I trial utilizing widely available technology to 1) evaluate the safety of a single radiation treatment delivered preoperatively to the small-volume, intact breast tumor and 2) identify imaging and genomic markers of radiation response.