Gastric side effects and the stomach dosimetric analysis in left-sided breast cancer radiotherapy in free-breathing and deep inspiration breath-hold technique

Abstract Background Adjuvant radiotherapy following surgery reduces the local recurrence and improves the prognosis. However, a considerable part of patients developed digestive reaction in daily treatment. In order to explore the correlation between breast radiotherapy and gastric toxicity, we inve...

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Main Authors: Dong Yang, Ying Piao, Fengshun Yuan, Hongtao Chen, Ding Zhang, Xianming Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-01-01
Series:Radiation Oncology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13014-021-01963-7