Anterior myocardial territory may replace the heart as organ at risk in intensity-modulated radiotherapy for left-sided breast cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1689-1697

  Tan, Wenyong ^a,b   Liu, Dong ^a   Xue, Chenbin ^b   Xu, Jiaozhen ^a   Li, Beihui ^a   Chen, Zhengwang ^b   Hu, Desheng ^a   Wang, Xionghong ^a  

^a HUBEI CANCER HOSPITAL   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cardiac complications; Intensity modulation; Organ at risk; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CONSERVING SURGERY; CARDIAC COMPLICATIONS; CONFORMITY INDEX; DOSE-VOLUME; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; HOMOGENEITY INDEX; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; LEFT VENTRICLES; MEAN DOSE; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; GRAPHIC METHODS; HEART; RADIOTHERAPY; SURGERY;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ANTERIOR MYOCARDIAL TERRITORY; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; LUNG; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MYOCARDIUM; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84858702141     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.03.009     Document Type: Article

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