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Are there any potential benefits to irradiating the partial breast with an MR-linac over conventional linac?

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Radiation Oncology · Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh

The group at WashU has done a great job publishing on this topic (Price et al., PMID 34624406).

At this time, I don't think we can say there is a clear benefit to MR linac over conventional CBCT when it comes to cancer control or toxicity, though there may be dosimetric benefits (that could translate...

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