Radiotherapy, left-sided breast cancer, and ischaemic heart disease.

Radiotherapy, left-sided breast cancer, and ischaemic heart disease.

Unintended cardiac irradiation during left-sided breast cancer radiotherapy.

OBJECTIVE Cardiac irradiation during left-sided breast radiotherapy may lead to deleterious cardiac side effects. Using image guided radiotherapy, it is possible to exclude the heart from treatment fields and monitor reproducibility of virtual simulation (VS) fields at treatment delivery using electronic portal imaging (EPI). Retrospectively, we evaluate the incidence of cardiac irradiation at ...

Variation In Mean Heart Dose By Treatment Plan Optimization During Radiotherapy For Left Sided Breast Cancer

Introduction: Radiotherapy (RT) plays a major role in the management of breast cancer. Cardiac Toxicity is an important late complication of radiotherapy for left sided Breast cancer. Cardiac morbidity can be minimized through careful treatment planning. Aim: To study the variation of dose to the heart by change in the depth of normalization point during Radiotherapy planning. Settings and desi...

Influence of different treatment planning techniques on radiation doses to the heart, left anterior descending coronary artery and left lung in the radiotherapy of left-sided breast cancer patients

Background: Breast-conserving surgery (BCS) followed by radiotherapy (RT) is the standard of care for women with breast cancer. Evidence shows that RT dose to the heart can result in ischemic heart disease. In this study we compared 3 different RT techniques were for heart, left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) and lung doses in left breast cancer patients after breast-conserving surge...

Carcinoid Heart Disease with Left-sided Lesions.

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