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free survival in lymphoma, though it increases the risk of secondary malignancies posttreatment 1,2 . Second primary breast cancers contribute most to the overall absolute excess risk of secondary malignancy in Hodgkin's lymphoma patients, with radiotherapy thought to play a major role in carcinogenesis 2 . However, the relationship between doses received and risk is unclear, and referral to screening programmes is mainly based upon data from out-dated mantle treatments 1-5 . The aim of this study therefore was to audit breast dose in female patients treatment with conformal radiotherapy approaches for mediastinal-involved lymphoma. Methodology: Patients were selected retrospectively from a locally held database 6 of women aged 36 who received supradiaphragmatic radiotherapy for lymphoma between 2008-2012.

Author

Alexander Baker; Pete Bridge; Lucy Buckley; Vivek Misra

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; W. B. Saunders Co., Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1078-8174)

Published

2020

Language

EN