Cardiac-sparing radiation therapy using positioning breast shell for patients with left-sided breast cancer who are ineligible for breath-hold techniques

Cardiac-sparing radiation therapy using positioning breast shell for patients with left-sided breast cancer who are ineligible for breath-hold techniques

Purpose: Patients with left-sided breast cancer (LSBC) are at increased risk of cardiac morbidity from adjuvant breast radiation therapy (ABRT). Breath-hold (BH) techniques substantially reduce the radiation received by heart during radiation therapy for LSBC. However, a subset of patients with LSBC...

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Main Authors: Kurian Joseph, MD, FRCPC, Heather Warkentin, MSc, Sunita Ghosh, PhD, Lee-Anne Polkosnik, CMD, Kent Powell, CMD, Matthew Brennan, HNC, Brad Warkentin, PhD, Johanna Jacobs, Khalifa Alkaabi, MBBS, Susan Chafe, MD, FRCPC, Keith Tankel, MD, FRCPC, Zsolt Gabos, MD, FRCPC, Hong-Wei Liu, MD, FRCPC, Patricia Tai, MD, FRCPC
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-10-01
Series:Advances in Radiation Oncology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452109417301549

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