Radiation Therapy Is Associated With an Increased Incidence of Cardiac Events in Patients with Small Cell Lung Cancer.

CONCLUSIONS: Patients with SCLC are at significant risk of developing CE posttreatment; RT is associated with an absolute increase in the rate of CE at 5 years of approximately 5% for all patients with SCLC and up to 10% for patients with LS-SCLC. Cardiac risk management and cardiac-sparing RT techniques should be further evaluated for patients with SCLC.
PMID: 30191870 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Health Physics - September 8, 2018 Category: Physics Authors: Ferris MJ, Jiang R, Behera M, Ramalingam SS, Curran WJ, Higgins KA Tags: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys Source Type: research