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 …

Breast cancer radiotherapy reduces the risk of cancer recurrence and death. However, it
usually involves some radiation exposure of the heart and analyses of randomised trials …

Radiation therapy plays an important role in the multidisciplinary management of breast
cancer. Recent years have seen improvements in breast cancer survival and a greater …

Breast cancer radiotherapy represents an essential component in the overall management
of both early stage and locally advanced breast cancer. As the number of breast cancer …

Proton therapy offers dominant advantages over photon therapy due to the unique depth-
dose characteristics of proton, which can cause a dramatic reduction in normal tissue doses …

PURPOSE To evaluate the safety and efficacy of proton beam radiation therapy (RT) for
patients with breast cancer who require regional nodal irradiation. METHODS Patients with …

Background Radiotherapy (RT) improves overall survival (OS) of breast cancer patients after
breast conserving surgery and after mastectomy in patients with involved lymph nodes (LN) …

Purpose To review current evidence of the role of proton therapy (PT) in other tumors than
skull base, sinusal/parasinusal, spinal and pediatric tumors; to determine medico-economic …

Purpose To report dosimetry and early toxicity data in breast cancer patients treated with
postoperative proton radiation therapy. Methods and Materials From March 2013 to April …

Aims Proton therapy is a radiation technique that yields less dose in normal tissues than
photon therapy. In the Netherlands, proton therapy is reimbursed if the reduced dose to …