Research progress on cardiac injury from breast cancer radiation therapy / 中国癌症杂志

ABSTRACT

Radiation therapy (RT) plays an important role in the multimodality management of patients with breast cancer. Traditional RT techniques increase risk of death from cardiovascular diseases. With the development of new techniques, cardiac injury after RT has already been reduced. This article summarizes the studies on reducing cardiac injury by the development of RT techniques, as well as analyzes of risk factors for cardiac injury.Possible causes will also be discussed.