Dose reduction to organs at risk with deep-inspiration breath-hold during right breast radiotherapy: a treatment planning study
Abstract Background The addition of regional nodal radiation (RNI) to whole breast irradiation for high risk breast cancer improves metastases free survival and new data suggests it contributes additional benefit to overall survival. Deep inspiration breath hold (DIBH) has been shown to reduce cardi...
Main Authors: | Chloe Pandeli, Lloyd M. L. Smyth, Steven David, Andrew W. See |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-12-01
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Series: | Radiation Oncology |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13014-019-1430-x |
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