Accelerated partial breast irradiation: the future of radiation therapy for breast cancer?

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Bruce G Haffty is currently Professor and Chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology of the University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and New Jersey Medical School, and Associate Director of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey (NJ, USA). His medical school and residency training were at Yale University School of Medicine (CT, USA), and he spent the majority of his academic career at Yale School of Medicine, Department of Therapeutic Radiology. He moved to the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Cancer Institute of New Jersey in 2005. Haffty is internationally recognized as an expert in breast radiation oncology and has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles, 30 book chapters and numerous editorials and letters. Much of his recent research has been supported by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. He is consistently listed as one of the country’s leading physicians by Best Doctors in America, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, America’s Top Doctors, Top Doctors for Cancer and Top Doctors in New York and New Jersey. In addition to a busy clinical practice, Haffty has served on numerous national committees related to research and education in breast cancer and radiation oncology. He is a past president of the American Radium Society and is the immediate past president of the American Board of Radiology. He is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical Oncology and President-Elect of the American Society of Radiation Oncology.