Exposure of remote organs and associated cancer risks from tangential and multi-field breast cancer radiotherapy.

Cristoforo SimonettoH RennauJ RemmeleS SebbP KundrátM EidemüllerU WolfG Hildebrandt

Published in: Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] (2018)

Remote organs are important for assessment of radiation-induced cancer risk. Remote doses can be reduced effectively by application of a tangential field configuration and a linear accelerator set-up with low head scatter radiation.

Keyphrases

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