Cardiac dose sparing and avoidance techniques in breast cancer radiotherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 9-16

  Shah, Chirag ^a   Badiyan, Shahed ^b   Berry, Sameer ^a   Khan, Atif J ^c   Goyal, Sharad ^c   Schulte, Kevin ^a   Nanavati, Anish ^d   Lynch, Melanie ^a   Vicini, Frank A ^e  

^a SUMMA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine   (United States)

^c ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e 21ST CENTURY ONCOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cardiac toxicity; Dose reduction; Radiation therapy; Respiratory gating

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED PARTIAL BREAST IRRADIATION; BREAST CANCER; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING PATTERN; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART PROTECTION; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTRAOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; LONG TERM CARE; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; REVIEW; TIME TO TREATMENT; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BODY POSTURE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARDIOTOXICITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOMETRY; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREATH HOLDING; CARDIOTOXICITY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; ORGAN SPARING TREATMENTS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRONE POSITION; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84908153355     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2014.04.009     Document Type: Review

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