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Dosimetric Comparison of the Heart and Left Anterior Descending Artery in Patients With Left Breast Cancer Treated With Three-Dimensional Conformal and Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy

Background Adjuvant radiotherapy plays an important role in the management of breast cancer, along with surgery and chemotherapy. However, postoperative radiotherapy poses an increased risk of radiation-induced heart diseases in patients with left-sided breast cancer due to damage of the coronary ar...

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Autores principales: Garg, Ayush, Kumar, Piyush
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8750670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35028247
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21108