Sample characteristics of interview participants
| Characteristic | (n=29) |
| Patient/care partner | |
| Patient (female) | 25 |
| Care partner (all were male) | 4 |
| Radiotherapy procedure | |
| EBRT (3 weeks course) | 3 |
| EBRT (5 days course, FAST-Forward protocol) | 12 |
| TARGIT-IORT | 14 |
| Age (of patient) | |
| 50–60 | 12 |
| 61–70 | 17 |
| Location | |
| Urban | 13 |
| Rural | 16 |
| Year of treatment | |
| 2019 | 7 |
| 2020 | 3 |
| 2021 | 14 |
| 2022 | 5 |
EBRT, External-Beam RadioTherapy; TARGIT-IORT, TARgeted Intraoperative radioTherapy using Intrabeam.