Estimating the risks of breast cancer radiotherapy: Evidence from modern radiation doses to the lungs and heart and from previous randomised trials
<h4>Purpose</h4> <p>Radiotherapy reduces the absolute risk of breast cancer mortality by a few percent in suitable women, but can cause second cancer or heart disease decades later. We estimated the absolute long-term risks of modern breast cancer radiotherapy.</p> <h4>...
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American Society of Clinical Oncology
2017
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