Journal article
A Systematic Review of Heart Dose in Breast Radiotherapy
Abstract
Radiotherapy (RT) for breast cancer improves survival, but poses risk to the heart, resulting from a linear relationship between RT dose and heart disease. This review presents studies worldwide reporting heart doses from whole breast RT after 2014 to update a previous systematic review (Taylor et al, Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2015) in order to determine patterns of current heart dosimetry among varying RT regimens. Studies published …
Authors
Drost L; Yee C; Lam H; Zhang L; Wronski M; McCann C; Lee J; Vesprini D; Leung E; Chow E
Journal
Clinical Breast Cancer, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. e819–e824
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
10 2018
DOI
10.1016/j.clbc.2018.05.010
ISSN
1526-8209