Heart dose and cardiac comorbidities influence death with a cardiac cause following hypofractionated radiotherapy for lung cancer

BackgroundThere is increasing evidence of cardiac toxicity of thoracic radiotherapy however, it is difficult to draw conclusions on cardiac dose constraints due to the heterogeneity of published studies. Moreover, few studies record data on cause of death. The aim of this paper is to investigate the...

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Main Authors: Kathryn Banfill, Azadeh Abravan, Marcel van Herk, Fei Sun, Kevin Franks, Alan McWilliam, Corinne Faivre-Finn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fonc.2022.1007577/full