ESTRO Multidisciplinary Management of Breast Cancer 2017

Dose-response Relationships for Other Important Late Side-effects • Lung cancer – approach similar to heart disease with smoking as main risk factor • Contralateral breast cancer – contralateral breast hard to contour on CT scans so different approach to dose estimation needed, eg using thermolunimescent dosimeters in tissue equivalent phantoms (eg Stovall et al, IJROBP, 2008; 72:1021)

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