Historically, heart dose from left-sided breast radiotherapy has been associated with a risk of
cardiac injury. Data suggests that there is not a threshold for the deleterious effects from …

Several recent developments in linear accelerator–based radiation therapy (RT) such as fast
multileaf collimators, accelerated intensity modulation paradigms like volumeric modulated …

Radiation treatment to the left breast is associated with increased cardiac morbidity and
mortality. The deep inspiration breath‐hold technique (DIBH) can decrease radiation dose …

Purpose To determine whether voluntary deep-inspiratory breath-hold (v_DIBH) and deep-
inspiratory breath-hold with the active breathing coordinator™(ABC_DIBH) in patients …

Background and purpose. Loco-regional radiotherapy of left-sided breast cancer represents
a treatment planning challenge when the internal mammary chain (IMC) lymph nodes are …

Simple Summary Adjuvant radiotherapy could damage the heart in left-sided breast cancer
patients. The deep-inspiration-breath-hold technique may limit the heart exposure to …

Purpose Radiotherapy (RT) for early breast cancer (BC) reduces the risk of recurrence and
improves overall survival. However, thoracic RT may cause some incidental RT dose to the …

Aims To evaluate the feasibility and heart-sparing ability of the voluntary breath-hold (VBH)
technique in a multicentre setting. Materials and methods Patients were recruited from 10 …

Background The aim of this study was to compare dose-volume histogram (DVH) with dose-
mass histogram (DMH) parameters for treatment of left-sided breast cancer in deep …

Breath-holding techniques reduce the amount of radiation received by cardiac structures
during tangential-field left breast radiotherapy. With these techniques, patients hold their …