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Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer

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Radiotherapy is a key component of breast conservation therapy and serves an important role as adjuvant therapy after mastectomy in select node-positive breast cancer. Over the past decade, many different modalities of radiotherapy delivery have evolved, with the common goal of improving target volume coverage while minimizing high radiation doses to the adjacent normal organs. One method of radiation delivery that has been increasingly utilized as a planning tool is intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT).

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, USA

    Vishruta Dumane PhD

  2. Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA

    Licheng Kuo MSc & Linda Hong PhD, DABR

  3. Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    Alice Y. Ho MD

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Jennifer R. Bellon

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Julia S. Wong

  3. Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Shannon M. MacDonald

  4. Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

    Alice Y. Ho

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Dumane, V., Kuo, L., Hong, L., Ho, A.Y. (2016). Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer. In: Bellon, J., Wong, J., MacDonald, S., Ho, A. (eds) Radiation Therapy Techniques and Treatment Planning for Breast Cancer. Practical Guides in Radiation Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40392-2_7

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