Impact of patient and treatment characteristics on heart and lung dose in adjuvant radiotherapy for left-sided breast cancer

Impact of patient and treatment characteristics on heart and lung dose in adjuvant radiotherapy for left-sided breast cancer

Abstract Purpose The heart and lungs are routinely exposed to incidental irradiation during adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) of breast cancer. We analyzed the impact of patient and treatment characteristics on heart and lung dose in left-sided breast RT. Methods We analyzed 332 female patients treated wit...

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Main Authors: Tobias Finazzi, Van-Trinh Nguyen, Frank Zimmermann, Alexandros Papachristofilou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-08-01
Series:Radiation Oncology
Subjects:
Breast cancer
Adjuvant radiotherapy
Organs at risk
Heart dose
Lung dose
Lymph nodes
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13014-019-1364-3

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