Cardiology

Radiation Oncology   

Questions discussed in this category



For radiation oncologists, how do you ameliorate the risk for radiation-related injury to epicardial coronaries during treatment sessions?

Assuming the patient is symptomatic and/or has compression of ventricles, what field design and dose-fractionation would you use?

If the pacemaker receives no dose, what dose are the leads allowed to receive and still function? Should interrogation(s) be done weekly?Does dose per...

If a patient had prior breast conserving treatment and now has inflammatory breast disease, would you prophylactical send the patient to a cardiologis...

Recent Japanese guidelines recommend <10MV beams, heart rhythm society and AAPM suggest up to 10MV beams are safe, recommending ≤10MV beams. Giv...

Would you consider using radiotherapy for persistent malignant pericardial effusion?  What dose-fractionation would you use, and what would your ...

Is there an established benefit for this? For instance if your patient has cardiac calcifications on imaging but no history of cardiac disease are the...

Is there a dose constraint you are using for LV-V5?https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28095159?dopt=Abstract

Would you treat if the patient is asymptomatic? If you do treat with RT, what dose-fractionation would you use, and what volumes do you target?

In a case-control study by Darby et al in the New England Journal of Medicine, patients treated for breast cancer with radiation were found to have an...


Papers discussed in this category


The New England journal of medicine, 2013-03-14

N. Engl. J. Med., 2013-06-27

J. Clin. Oncol., 2017-04-10

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2006-09-01

Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes, 2019 Nov 22

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2016-11-15

Clin Cancer Res, 2021 Mar 25

Med Phys, 2019 Nov 01

Pacing Clin Electrophysiol, 2015 Jan 20

JACC CardioOncol, 2021 Sep 21

Circulation, 2013 Dec 24

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 2021 May 08

JACC CardioOncol, 2021 Sep 21

HeartRhythm case reports, 2016-09

Journal of the American Heart Association, 2021 Sep 06