Heart Dose and Outcomes in Radiation Treatment for Esophageal Cancer

Purpose Studies have shown that radiation dose to the heart may be associated with worse outcomes in patients receiving chemoradiation for lung cancer. As esophageal cancer radiation treatment can result in relatively high cardiac doses, we evaluated a single-institution database of patients treated...

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Autores principales: Macomber, Meghan W, Bowen, Stephen R, Gopan, Olga, Yeung, Rosanna, Apisarnthanarax, Smith, Zeng, Jing, Patel, Shilpen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
Materias:
Radiation Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5969818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29805947
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2378

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5969818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29805947
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2378

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