Left-sided breast cancer radiotherapy with and without breath-hold: Does IMRT reduce the cardiac dose even further?

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 248-253

  Mast, Mirjam E ^a   Van Kempen Harteveld, Loes ^a   Heijenbrok, Mark W ^b   Kalidien, Yamoena ^a   Rozema, Hans ^a   Jansen, Wim P A ^c   Petoukhova, Anna L ^a   Struikmans, Henk ^a,c  

^a Radiotherapy Centre West   (Netherlands)

^b MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Active Breathing Control; Breast cancer; Heart sparing; IMRT; LAD; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREATH HOLDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEART; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION;

ACTIVE BREATHING CONTROL; BREAST CANCER; HEART SPARING; IMRT; LAD; RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREATH HOLDING; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORGANS AT RISK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84885379350     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2013.07.017     Document Type: Article

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