How do you advise patients on cardiotoxicity when they are expected to receive a low mean heart dose and low cardiac substructure doses with their radiation plan?
Such as breast plans with < 200 cGy mean heart dose
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
I would say something along the lines of:
"Radiation therapy is an effective tool for treating your cancer. However, whenever we give radiation therapy, there is always some incidental dose delivered to the adjacent normal tissues. We cannot make the dose zero to all of the normal tissues. Thus, we...