Mastectomy

Findings from University of Seville in mastectomy reported

Published in Cancer Weekly, February 2nd, 2010

In this recent article published in the journal Radiotherapy and Oncology, scientists in Seville, Spain conducted a study "To evaluate the feasibility of using a photon MLC (xMLC) for modulated electron radiotherapy treatment (MERT) as an alternative to conventional post-mastectomy chest wall (CW) irradiation."

"A Monte Carlo (MC) based planning system was developed to overcome the inaccuracy of the 'pencil beam' algorithm MC techniques are known to accurately calculate the close distributions of electron beams, allowing the explicit simulation of electron interactions within the MLC Materials and method Four real clinical CW cases were planned using MERT which...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2010-02-02)

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