Mega-Dose Vitamins and Breast Cancer

Breast Implants and Breast Cancer

The Comparison 2D and 3D Treatment Planning in Breast Cancer Radiotherapy with Emphasis on Dose Homogeneity and Lung Dose

Introduction: Breast conserving radiotherapy is one of the most common procedures performed in any radiation oncology department. A tangential parallel-opposed pair is usually used for this purpose. This technique is performed using 2D or 3D treatment planning systems. The aim of this study was to compare 2D treatment planning with 3D treatment planning in tangential irradiation in breast conse...

Dosimetric comparison of treatment of left breast cancer using two different dose schedules Dosimetric comparison of treatment of left breast cancer using two different dose schedules

Background: To date, different kinds of treatment methods have been proposed for radiotherapy of cancer patients. Choosing the kind of treatment method affects the quality of the patient's treatment. This study aims to investigate the effect of the number of radiation treatment sessions on the dose received by the patient and the distribution of tumor dose and dose received by organs at risk in...

Breast Cancer: High-Dose Therapy.

Breast cancer has become the leading indication for high-dose chemotherapy (HDC) with autologous stem cell rescue (ASCR) in North America. The rapid increase in HDC/ASCR for breast cancer has been driven by belief in the response rates and survival times demonstrated in phase II studies, which have been higher than that of historical controls. However, there is a growing body of data to suggest...

Dose intensity for breast cancer.

Despite nearly 20 years of study, the importance of chemotherapy dose intensity in breast cancer remains unclear. Substantial preclinical data suggest a dose-response relationship, and consistent data document that recipients of substandard dosing have inferior outcomes. The use of increased dose-intensive therapies is costly, may require the use of hematopoietic growth factor support, and can ...