WHAT ANATOMIC FEATURES GOVERN PERSONAL LONG-TERM HEALTH RISKS FROM BREAST CANCER RADIOTHERAPY?
Radiat Prot Dosimetry
; 186(2-3): 381-385, 2019 Dec 31.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-31711194
Breast cancer radiotherapy may in the long term lead to radiation-induced secondary cancer or heart disease. These health risks hugely vary among patients, partially due to anatomy-driven differences in doses deposited to the heart, ipsilateral lung and contralateral breast. We identify four anatomic features that largely cover these dosimetric variations to enable personalized risk estimates. For three exemplary, very different risk scenarios, the given parameter set reproduces 63-74% of the individual risk variability for left-sided breast cancer patients. These anatomic features will be used in the PASSOS software to support decision processes in breast-cancer therapy.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted
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Breast
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Breast Neoplasms
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Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated
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Organs at Risk
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Heart
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Lung
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Radiat Prot Dosimetry
Year:
2019
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Germany
Country of publication:
United kingdom