Breast brachytherapy

Treatment and resources by Elekta

Why brachytherapy for breast?

Elekta offers various applicators for brachytherapy as a breast cancer treatment. The combination of the OncoSmart Catheter System and the Breast CT/MR Template Sets provides an excellent solution for APBI (Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation) treatment regimens by your radiation oncologist, offering exceptional flexibility for both the treatment and the patient.

Connectivity to MOSAIQ® OIS

Confidence for you and your patients

Contributes to paperless brachytherapy workflow information
Automated scheduling and billing process
Documented dose and structure sets
Automatically exchange breast cancer treatment plans created with Oncentra Brachy and treatment records generated by the afterloader
Perform dose tracking based on the treatment plan and treatment record for the selected and verified patient
Provide a more efficient and electronic way to capture information that will be included in the patient's Continuity of Care Document (CCD), data as required for meaningful use (Stage 1 and beyond)

Doctors discussing patient treatment plans

Applicator selection

Diagnostic imaging guides the applicator choice

Breast applicators

Broadest range of CT/MR compatible applicators

Elekta offers various applicators for brachytherapy for breast cancer.

The combination of the OncoSmart Catheter System and the Breast CT/MR Template Sets provides an excellent solution for APBI (Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation) treatment regimens, offering exceptional flexibility for both the treatment and the patient.

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OncoSmart® catheter system

A single multicatheter implant serves multiple treatment fractions
Allows patients to resume daily life between fractions
Enables quick and accurate catheter reconnection for follow-up fractions

Breast CT/MR template set

Smooth needle guidance for multicatheter implants
Easy assembly of templates
Lightweight design reduces patient discomfort
CT and MR compatible

Kuske breast applicator set

Designed for optimal fit with patient anatomy
Optimal target coverage including wide volumes
Excellent dose conformity

Applicator insertion

Guided by the template all needles are inserted parallel to each other

OncoSmart catheter system

A full package for accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI). Elekta offers a range of brachytherapy options to treat breast cancer cells. The combination of the OncoSmart Catheter System and the Breast CT/MR Template Sets offers excellent breast cancer treatment options.

“The applicator enables the user to create large volume breast implants. The adjustable template has an integrated guiding template, which ensures the exact placement of needles and flexible implants or OncoSmart catheters. Also, the single large template has a special hole geometry. This applicator allows for excellent coverage of the target volume and optimized conformity with the patient's anatomy.”

R. Kuske, MD, Arizona Oncology Services, Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.

Imaging

Determine applicator position relative to tumor and OaR

Treatment planning to treat cancer

Homogeneous dose delivery on the target while sparing the OaR

Oncentra Brachy

Comprehensive treatment planning software

Designing the optimal dose distribution can be a time-consuming job. The latest version of Oncentra Brachy offers a series of useful tools that simplify many repetitive tasks, such as contouring and reconstruction. Oncentra Brachy buys you time to focus on what counts: creating the optimal dose distribution.

Oncentra Brachy also helps you optimize breast cancer treatment plan accuracy, providing easy navigation to any plane that offers the most relevant information per region of interest.

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Reduce implant reconstruction time

Instant applicator reconstruction in relation to anatomy
Contains the complete geometry of Elekta's gynecological applicators
Includes the measured source paths of ring applicators
Accounts for dose attenuation resulting from shielding during planning and shields are fully visible

Dose distribution calculated by ACE

Algorithm based on the TG-186 recommendations published by the AAPM workgroup in 2012
Discriminates between tissue, air and bone
Accounts for tissue heterogeneities, lack of backscatter from areas with no tissue, applicator attenuation and shielding

Implant modeling tool

Reconstruct multicatheter implants immediately
Drag & Drop 3D applicator geometry for accurate and fast reconstruction
Extra Coordinate System (ECS) allows quick and easy navigation to the correct plane views

Automatic dose optimization

IPSA

Paired with the Dwell Time Deviation Constraint (DTDC)
Limits high variation in dwell times

HIPO

Improves plan optimization with Dwell Time Gradient Restriction (DTGR)
Control high and low peaks in dwell times
Focus optimization where it is needed with needle locking

Radiation therapy treatment delivery

Safe, simple, intuitive brachytherapy workflow

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Five simple features are the basis for the Flexitron way of working, introducing a new standard in treatment delivery

Standardized transfer lengths, less prone to human errors during reconstruction as there is only one indexer length.
Reference zero at entrance of applicator, no need to measure the distal tip.
Metric dwell position numbering, 1 mm step size in a treatment window of 400 mm.
Forward stepping results in a reproducible source positioning within 0,5mm accuracy
Intuitive user interface, smooth navigation saves time.

Why Flexitron?

Simple quality assurance
40-channel option for large implants
Connected to major oncology systems such as MOSAIQ®
Safe investment with future upgrade potential
Available in either Iridium-192 or Cobalt-60*

* Not available in all countries.

Patient out

Find out about brachytherapy for other body regions

Head and neck

Bronchus and oesophagus

What our customers say

Chris Lee, MPE at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, UK, on Flexitron

Sabhakar Mutyala, MD from University of Arizona, on Breast Brachytherapy

BrachyAcademy

Empowering through education

Peer-to-peer education platform for brachytherapy professionals

The BrachyAcademy comprises a complete peer-to-peer medical education library and includes programs such as clinical workshops and training visits to leading hospitals worldwide.

Learn more

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about brachytherapy

We've created our online educational brachytherapy portal for patients and those who are supporting patients throughout their curative treatment, to provide key information and to help those affected gain an understanding of brachytherapy.

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