Environmental and social benefits of the targeted intraoperative radiotherapy for breast cancer: data from UK TARGIT-A trial centres and two UK NHS hospitals offering TARGIT IORT.
Nathan J Coombs, Joel M Coombs, Uma J Vaidya, Julian Singer, Max Bulsara, Jeffrey S Tobias, Frederik Wenz, David J Joseph, Douglas A Brown, Richard Rainsbury, Tim Davidson, Douglas J A Adamson, Samuele Massarut, David Morgan, Ingrid Potyka, Tammy Corica, Mary Falzon, Norman Williams, Michael Baum, Jayant S Vaidya
BMJ Open 2016;6:e010703. http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/5/e010703.full
http://blogs.bmj.com/bmjopen/2016/05/09/radiotherapy-during-surgery-could-save-millions-of-travel-miles-and-tonnes-of-co2/
The use of TARGIT intraoperative radiotherapy for eligible patients with breast cancer
significantly reduces their journeys for treatment and has environmental benefits: 5 million miles of travel, 170 000 woman-hours and 1200 tonnes of CO2 (a forest of 100 hectares) per year in the UK
