Cardiac protective techniques in left breast radiotherapy: rapid selection criteria for routine clinical decision making

Abstract Objective In left breast radiotherapy (RT) desired heart doses may be achieved without heart-sparing RT techniques in some patients. We aimed to examine the existence of predictive factors and cutoff points to determine which patients are the main candidates for heart-sparing RT techniques....

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Main Authors: Meltem Kirli Bolukbas, Sibel Karaca, Volkan Coskun, Esengul Kocak Uzel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-11-01
Series:European Journal of Medical Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40001-023-01470-3