Reassessing the Time Course for Radiation-Induced Cardiac Mortality in Patients With Breast Cancer

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2017 Feb 1;97(2):303-305. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.10.036. Epub 2016 Oct 31.

Authors

Lawrence B Marks¹, Timothy M Zagar², Orit Kaidar-Person²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Electronic address: lawrence_marks@med.unc.edu.
² Department of Radiation Oncology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

PMID: 28068237
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.10.036

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Breast Neoplasms / mortality*
Breast Neoplasms / radiotherapy*
Disease Progression
Disease-Free Survival
Female
Heart Diseases / mortality*
Humans
Internationality
Proportional Hazards Models
Radiation Injuries / mortality*
Radiotherapy, Conformal / mortality*
Radiotherapy, Conformal / statistics & numerical data
Risk Assessment / methods*
Survival Rate*
Treatment Outcome