MammoSite® RTS
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MammoSite® Radiation Therapy System (RTS)
This innovative form of brachytherapy is used to treat breast cancer. The MammoSite system delivers radiation quickly and accurately to breast tumors.
MammoSite® Radiation Therapy System (RTS), FDA-approved in May 2002, is a simpler, less invasive method of delivering breast brachytherapy, a site-specific radiation treatment completed in four to five days, as compared to seven weeks for traditional external beam radiation therapy. The new device delivers radiation directly to the area where a breast tumor has been surgically removed via lumpectomy, which is the site where tumors are most likely to recur. With its site-specific approach, MammoSite avoids external beam therapy side effects, such as the irradiation of healthy tissue.
Brachytherapy is the first breast cancer treatment to deliver radiation directly to the original tumor site and decrease radiation time. While standard breast brachytherapy involves surgically implanting up to 24 catheters into the breast, MammoSite calls for just a single catheter to perform the therapy.
MammoSite RTS consists of a balloon catheter that is inserted into the area of the breast where the tumor was removed. Once inserted, the balloon is expanded and radiation is delivered through a tiny bead attached to a wire, irradiating the area surrounding the cavity.
Radiation Therapy
- 3D Conformal Radiation
- Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI)
- BrainLAB SRS
- Calypso® 4D Localization System™
- Contura™
- Cyberknife (see Stereotactic Radiosurgery)
- Deep Tissue Hyperthermia
- External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT)
- Gamma Knife (see Stereotactic Radiosurgery)
- High-Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy
- Hyperthermia (also see Local Hyperthermia, Deep Tissue Hyperthermia)
- Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
- Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)
- Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT)
- LightSpeed RT
- Local Hyperthermia
- MammoSite® RTS
- Radioactive Protectants
- Rapid Arc™
- Respiratory Gating
- Radioiodine Ablation (see Systemic Radiation Therapy)
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS)
- Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)
- Systemic Radiation Therapy
- TheraSphere®
- TomoTherapy® HI-ART
- Total Body Irradiation (TBI)
- Total Marrow Irradiation (TMI)
- Trilogy™
