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Do you use an LAD constraint in the setting of BID thoracic radiation for SCLC?

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Radiation Oncology · Duke University Medical Center

The literature is convincing that an increasing dose to the heart (using whole-heart dosimetric parameters) is associated with an increased risk of adverse cardiac events and decreased survival. Recent and current investigations have attempted to correlate dose to specific cardiac substructures with...

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