1. The Use of Compensators and Multiple Static Fields for IMRT of the Breast
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Stephanie Reise, John Yarnold, Ellen M. Donovan, J Richard N Symonds-Tayler, Vibeke N. Hansen, Mike Partridge, Philip M. Evans, David J Convery, and Natalie Bleackley
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Breast pain ,Cosmesis ,Dose distribution ,medicine.disease ,Arm lymphoedema ,Medicine ,Brachial Plexopathy ,Ischaemic heart disease ,External beam radiotherapy ,Radiology ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Pneumonitis - Abstract
External beam radiotherapy of the breast has been shown to lead to a significant reduction in the incidence of local recurrence [1]. Unfortunately these gains are partially offset by side effects, such as ischaemic heart disease, arm lymphoedema, brachial plexopathy, breast pain, poor cosmesis and pneumonitis. A major contributing factor to these complications is believed to be the inhomogeneity of the dose distribution from tangential irradiation which often exceeds the figure of 10% considered to be acceptable.
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- 2000
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