Proton pencil beam scanning reduces secondary cancer risk in breast cancer patients with internal mammary chain involvement compared to photon radiotherapy

Proton pencil beam scanning reduces secondary cancer risk in breast cancer patients with internal mammary chain involvement compared to photon radiotherapy

Abstract Purpose Proton pencil beam scanning (PBS) represents an interesting option for the treatment of breast cancer (BC) patients with nodal involvement. Here we compare tangential 3D-CRT and VMAT to PBS proton therapy (PT) in terms of secondary cancer risk (SCR) for the lungs and for contralater...

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Main Authors: Giorgio Cartechini, Francesco Fracchiolla, Loris Menegotti, Emanuele Scifoni, Chiara La Tessa, Marco Schwarz, Paolo Farace, Francesco Tommasino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-10-01
Series:Radiation Oncology
Subjects:
Secondary cancer risk
Breast cancer
Proton therapy
Tangential 3D-CRT
VMAT
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13014-020-01671-8

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