Role of palliative radiotherapy in the management of mural cardiac metastases: who, when and how to treat? A case series of 10 patients

Cancer Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 989-996

  Fotouhi Ghiam, Alireza ^a,b   Dawson, Laura A ^a,b   Abuzeid, Wael ^c   Rauth, Sarah ^a,d   Jang, Raymond W ^b   Horlick, Eric ^c   Bezjak, Andrea ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d CREDIT VALLEY HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heart; heart neoplasms; neoplasm metastasis; palliative medicine; radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART METASTASIS; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

EID: 85006198810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cam4.619     Document Type: Article

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