Atif J. Khan, MD

The prospect of even more compressed radiotherapy options for women requiring adjuvant breast radiotherapy is exciting. However, we urge readers to be cautious in their interpretation of the current intraoperative literature as they implement their programs.

Chadha et al are to be commended for their excellent review of repeat breast-conservation therapy after isolated in-breast local failures. We will briefly review several important points already made by the study authors.