Evaluation of a new predictor of heart and left anterior descending artery dose in patients treated with adjuvant radiotherapy to the left breast

Evaluation of a new predictor of heart and left anterior descending artery dose in patients treated with adjuvant radiotherapy to the left breast

Abstract Background Heart-sparing techniques are time and resource intensive, although not all patients require the use of these strategies. This study evaluates the performance of different distance metrics in predicting the need for breath-hold radiotherapy in left-sided breast cancer patients rec...

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Main Authors: Lucas C. Mendez, Alexander V. Louie, Carolina Moreno, Matt Wronski, Andrew Warner, Eric Leung, Roberto Sakuraba, Juliana K. Helito, Ana Rezende, Icaro T. Carvalho, Eduardo Weltman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-07-01
Series:Radiation Oncology
Subjects:
Breath-hold radiotherapy
Breast cancer
Prediction metrics
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13014-018-1069-z

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