The dose-response relationship for cardiovascular disease is not necessarily linear

Abstract The probability for a complication after radiotherapy is usually a function of dose and volume in the organ or tissue of interest. In most epidemiological studies the risk for a complication is stratified in terms of dose, but not irradiated volume. We show that the obtained risk cannot gen...

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Main Authors: Uwe Schneider, Marina Ernst, Matthias Hartmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-04-01
Series:Radiation Oncology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13014-017-0811-2