Targeted intra-operative radiotherapy

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Targeted intra-operative radiotherapy
The equipment and process of TARGIT intra-operative radiotherapy
Other namesTARGIT
SpecialtyOncology

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. The technique was designed in 1998 at the University College London.[1]

One IORT technique is known as TARGIT (TARGeted Intraoperative radioTherapy). TARGIT is a method where the radiation is applied during an operation and targeted to the peri-tumoural tissues. TARGIT technique was designed at University College London[2] by Jayant S. Vaidya (who coined the TARGIT acronym) and Michael Baum along with Jeffrey S. Tobias in 1998. The term was first used when the technique was described.[3]

  1. ^ "TARGIT: transforming the breast cancer treatment paradigm". University College London. 2014-12-14. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  2. ^ Vaidya JS (2002). A Novel Approach to local treatment of breast cancer (PhD thesis). University of London.
  3. ^ Vaidya JS, Baum M, Tobias JS, D'Souza DP, Naidu SV, Morgan S, et al. (August 2001). "Targeted intra-operative radiotherapy (Targit): an innovative method of treatment for early breast cancer". Annals of Oncology. 12 (8): 1075–80. doi:10.1023/A:1011609401132. PMID 11583188.