Low doses to the heart in daily practice for treating left-sided breast cancer using accelerated partial-breast irradiation by multicatheter brachytherapy and deep-inspiration breath-hold using a SIB

ConclusionIn daily practice, both DIBH radiation therapy as well as MCBT show a  very low heart exposure and may thus reduce long term cardiac morbidity as compared to currently available long-term clinical data of patients treated with conventional tangential field plans in free breathing. Our analysis confirms particularly good cardiac sparing with MCBT-APBI, so that this te chnique should be offered to patients with left-sided breast cancer if the tumor-associated eligibility criteria are fulfilled.
Source: Strahlentherapie und Onkologie - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research