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Is there any role for differential cardiac substructure dose tolerances when treating with radiation for breast cancer?

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Radiation Oncology · Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh

There is growing literature on the role of defining cardiac substructures and potential dosimetric constraints for these substructures as an improved methodology for cardiac DVH assessment, as compared to mean heart dose (Jacob et al., PMID 30732640).

However, at this time, we do not have robust long...

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