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The dose-response relationship for cardiovascular disease is not necessarily linear

The probability for a complication after radiotherapy is usually a function of dose and volume in the organ or tissue of interest. In most epidemiological studies the risk for a complication is stratified in terms of dose, but not irradiated volume. We show that the obtained risk cannot generally be...

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Autores principales: Schneider, Uwe, Ernst, Marina, Hartmann, Matthias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5408361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28449708
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13014-017-0811-2