The UK HeartSpare Study (Stage IB): Randomised comparison of a voluntary breath-hold technique and prone radiotherapy after breast conserving surgery

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 66-72

  Bartlett, Frederick R ^a   Colgan, Ruth M ^a   Donovan, Ellen M ^a   McNair, Helen A ^a   Carr, Karen ^a   Evans, Philip M ^a,b   Griffin, Clare ^c   Locke, Imogen ^a   Haviland, Joanne S ^c   Yarnold, John R ^c   Kirby, Anna M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breath hold; Cardiac dose; Prone; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BREAST CANCER; BREATH ANALYSIS; BREATHING FREQUENCY MONITOR; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOSIMETRY; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; FREE BREATHING PRONE TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOM ERROR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUNTARY DEEP INSPIRATORY BREATH HOLD; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREATH HOLDING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; HEART; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SARCOMA; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; SUPINE POSITION;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREATH HOLDING; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRONE POSITION; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SARCOMA; SUPINE POSITION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84925210053     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2014.11.018     Document Type: Article

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