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How are you using the data on cardiac morbidity in regards to the LV-V5 in breast cancer patients?

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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network

At present we use MHD as our hard constraints and limit to less than 2Gy for patients with breast only RT. Besides make sure that no part of beam passes through any portion of heart (thus limiting heart dose from scatter and transmission only)

Darby data was also validated by similar study from UK w...

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