Incidental dose distribution to locoregional lymph nodes of breast cancer patients undergoing adjuvant radiotherapy with tomotherapy - is it time to adjust current contouring guidelines to the radiation technique?
Abstract Purpose/objective(s) Along with breast-conserving surgery (BCS), adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) of patients with early breast cancer plays a crucial role in the oncologic treatment concept. Conventionally, irradiation is carried out with the aid of tangentially arranged fields. However, more mo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-08-01
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| Series: | Radiation Oncology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13014-019-1328-7 |