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A Delphi study and International Consensus Recommendations: The use of bolus in the setting of postmastectomy radiation therapy for early breast cancer

Authors :
Livia Marrazzo
Gustavo Nader Marta
Pierfrancesco Franco
Icro Meattini
Alan Nichol
Dori Benjamin
Liesbeth J. Boersma
Anna M. Kirby
Dirk De Ruysscher
Alice Y. Ho
Jean Philippe Pignol
Charlotte E. Coles
Birgitte Vrou Offersen
Henrik Nissen
Hannah Dahn
Philip Poortmans
S. Hol
Meena S. Moran
Reshma Jagsi
Yvonne Zissiadis
Vratislav Strnad
Cynthia Aristei
Nuran Bese
Orit Kaidar-Person
Yazid Belkacemi
RS: GROW - R3 - Innovative Cancer Diagnostics & Therapy
Radiotherapie
Coles, Charlotte [0000-0003-4473-8552]
Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Source :
Kaidar-Person, O, Dahn, H M, Nichol, A M, Boersma, L J, de Ruysscher, D, Meattini, I, Pignol, J P, Aristei, C, Belkacemi, Y, Benjamin, D, Bese, N, Coles, C E, Franco, P, Ho, A Y, Hol, S, Jagsi, R, Kirby, A M, Marrazzo, L, Marta, G N, Moran, M S, Nissen, H D, Strnad, V, Zissiadis, Y, Poortmans, P M & Offersen, B V 2021, ' A Delphi study and International Consensus Recommendations : The use of bolus in the setting of postmastectomy radiation therapy for early breast cancer ', Radiotherapy and Oncology, vol. 164, pp. 115-121 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2021.09.012, Radiotherapy and oncology, Radiotherapy and Oncology, 164, 115-121. Elsevier Ireland Ltd
Publication Year :
2021

Abstract

Bolus serves as a tissue equivalent material that shifts the 95-100% isodose line towards the skin and subcutaneous tissue. The need for bolus for all breast cancer patients planned for postmastectomy radiation therapy (PMRT) has been questioned. The work was initiated by the faculty of the European SocieTy for Radiotherapy & Oncology (ESTRO) breast cancer courses and represents a multidisciplinary international breast cancer expert collaboration to optimize PMRT. Due to the lack of randomised trials evaluating the benefits of bolus, we designed a stepwise project to evaluate the existing evidence about the use of bolus in the setting of PMRT to achieve an international consensus for the indications of bolus in PMRT, based on the Delphi method. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Radiotherapy and Oncology 164 (2021) 115-121

Details

ISSN :
18790887 and 01678140
Volume :
164
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....9442f2e726120365a772010ad7f43585
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2021.09.012