Cardiac death after breast radiotherapy and the QUANTEC cardiac guidelines

Cardiac death after breast radiotherapy and the QUANTEC cardiac guidelines

Background: Breast/chest wall irradiation (RT) increases risk of cardiovascular death. International Quantitative Analysis of Normal Tissue Effects in the Clinic (QUANTEC) guidelines state for partial heart irradiation a “V25Gy <10% will be associated with a <1% probability of cardiac mortalit...

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Main Authors: Laura Beaton, Alanah Bergman, Alan Nichol, Maria Aparicio, Graham Wong, Lovedeep Gondara, Caroline Speers, Lorna Weir, Margot Davis, Scott Tyldesley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-11-01
Series:Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405630819300898

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