Sentence examples for cardiac dose from inspiring English sources

Use of intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) has been proposed to reduce cardiac dose in these patients.

Attempts have been made to reduce cardiac dose delivered during breast radiotherapy through positional manoeuvres.

The cardiac dose for right-sided patients is generally from scattered irradiation alone (Taylor et al, 2008).

They had received a mean uniform single cardiac dose of ⩽4 Gy, and within this cohort subsequent studies showed excess mortality from cardiac disease (Preston et al, 2003).

Canney et al. [ 27], found that in this position the lateral chest wall tissues were raised superiorly and anteriorly, allowing a reduced cardiac dose for the same breast tissue coverage.

Although the cardiac dose from left-tangential radiotherapy has also decreased considerably over the past few decades, part of the heart still receives >20 Gy for approximately half of those with left-sided tumours.

Cardiac dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) in the form of atrial fibrillation did occur in 1 of 6 patients treated with melphalan 280 mg/m280

Acetylsalicylic acid in small "cardiac" doses and beta-blockers seem to be safe drugs in pregnancy.

In patients with unfavorable cardiac anatomy, where the heart is close to the thoracic wall, the cardiac doses increase significantly [ 10, 11].

If reduction in unnecessary cardiac dosing were the sole concern, then 'mini-tangent' conventional beams avoiding the lower breast pole or incorporation of cardiac beam shaping would achieve the objective in upper pole cancers very simply [ 9].

An adjusted multivariable model that included risk factors such as gender, age at diagnosis, treatment era (in five year increments between 1970 and 1986), cardiac radiation dose, and anthracycline dose was constructed to evaluate the independent effects of each factor on each cardiac outcome among survivors.