Medical Dosimetry
Volume 35, Issue 3 , Pages 163-168 , Autumn 2010

Internal Mammary Lymph Node Irradiation Contributes to Heart Dose in Breast Cancer

Presented in part at the annual meeting of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, Götenborg, Sweden, September 14–17th, 2008.

  • Cyrus Chargari, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiotherapy, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
    • Department of Radiotherapy and Medical Oncology, Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées du Val-de-Grâce, Paris, France
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  • Pierre Castadot, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radio-Oncology, Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels, Belgium
    • ,
  • Dhara MacDermed, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
    • ,
  • Christophe Vandekerkhove, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Physics, Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels, Belgium
    • ,
  • Nicolas Bourgois, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radio-Oncology, Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels, Belgium
    • ,
  • Paul Van Houtte, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radio-Oncology, Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels, Belgium
    • ,
  • Nicolas Magné, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiotherapy, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
    • Department of Radio-Oncology, Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: Nicolas Magné, M.D., Ph.D., Institut Gustave-Roussy, Department of Radiotherapy, 39, rue Camille Desmoulins, 94805 Villejuif cedex, France

Received 31 December 2008 ,Accepted 5 May 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2009.05.002

Medical Dosimetry
Volume 35, Issue 3 , Pages 163-168 , Autumn 2010

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