What antomic features govern personal long-term health risks from breast cancer radiotherapy?

0523892 - ÚJF 2021 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Kundrát, Pavel - Simonetto, C. - Eidemuller, M. - Remmele, J. - Hannes, R. - Sebb, S. - Wolf, U. - Hildebrandt, G.
What antomic features govern personal long-term health risks from breast cancer radiotherapy?
Radiation Protection Dosimetry. Roč. 186, 2-3 (2019), s. 381-385. ISSN 0144-8420. E-ISSN 1742-3406
Institutional support: RVO:61389005
Keywords : breast neoplasms * radiotherapy * heart dose
OECD category: Radiology, nuclear medicine and medical imaging
Impact factor: 0.773, year: 2019
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncz236

Breast cancer radiotherapy may in the long term lead to radiation-induced secondary cancer or heart disease. These health risks hugely vary among patients, partially due to anatomy-driven differences in doses deposited to the heart, ipsilateral lung and contralateral breast. We identify four anatomic features that largely cover these dosimetric variations to enable personalized risk estimates. For three exemplary, very different risk scenarios, the given parameter set reproduces 63-74% of the individual risk variability for left-sided breast cancer patients. These anatomic features will be used in the PASSOS software to support decision processes in breast-cancer therapy.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0308175