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Intensity-modulated radiation therapy for early-stage breast cancer: is it ready for prime time?

Overview of attention for article published in Breast cancer targets and therapy, March 2017
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Title
Intensity-modulated radiation therapy for early-stage breast cancer: is it ready for prime time?
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Breast cancer targets and therapy, March 2017
DOI 10.2147/bctt.s127583
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Tabitha Y Chan, Poh Wee Tan, Johann I Tang

Abstract

Whole breast external beam radiotherapy (WBEBRT) is commonly used as an essential arm in the treatment management of women with early-stage breast cancer. Dosimetry planning for conventional WBEBRT typically involves a pair of tangential fields. Advancement in radiation technology and techniques has the potential to improve treatment outcomes with clinically meaningful long-term benefits. However, this advancement must be balanced with safety and improved efficacy. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is an advanced technique that shows promise in improving the planning process and radiation delivery. Early data on utilizing IMRT for WBEBRT demonstrate more homogenous dose distribution with reduction in organs at risk doses. This translates to toxicities reduction. The two common descriptors for IMRT are forward-planning "fields in field" and inverse planning. Unlike IMRT for other organs, the aim of IMRT for breast planning is to achieve dose homogeneity and not organ conformality. The aim of this paper was to evaluate whether IMRT is ready for prime time based on these three points: 1) workload impact, 2) the clinical impact on the patient's quality of life, and 3) the appropriateness and applicability to clinical practice.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 54 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 7 13%
Student > Bachelor 7 13%
Student > Master 7 13%
Researcher 6 11%
Student > Postgraduate 6 11%
Other 7 13%
Unknown 14 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 17 31%
Physics and Astronomy 7 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 11%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Other 4 7%
Unknown 17 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 April 2017.
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#17,350,971
of 25,461,852 outputs
Outputs from Breast cancer targets and therapy
#184
of 325 outputs
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#210,378
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Outputs of similar age from Breast cancer targets and therapy
#14
of 24 outputs
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