Targit Collaborative Group

The TARGIT Collaborative Group (TCG) is a cooperative effort between radiation oncologists, cancer surgeons, physicists and other experts in intraoperative radiotherapy that share a common mission to improve cancer patient care through education, patient advocacy, mentorship, and collaborative research.New technologies and innovations are enabling physicians to provide safe, effective, and less harmful treatments to patients. A major initial focus of the organization will be on increasing physician and patient awareness and access to targeted intraoperative radiotherapy, an innovative cancer treatment thatreduces the side effect and burden of cancer care.TARGit Intraoperative radioTherapy (TARGIT) is a type of accelerated radiation treatment that has been most commonly used in breast cancer to deliver a complete course of radiation to the cancer site during surgery, immediately following cancer removal. In most cases, this single treatment eliminates the need for the usual 4-6 week cou