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Incidence of heart disease in 35,000 women treated with radiotherapy for breast cancer in Denmark and Sweden.
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PURPOSE: To study incidence of radiation-related heart disease in a large population of breast cancer patients followed for up to 30 years. MATERIAL AND METHODS: 72,134 women diagnosed with breast cancer in Denmark or Sweden during 1976-2006 and followed prospectively. Radiation-related risk was studied by comparing women with left-sided and right-sided tumours. RESULTS: 34,825 women (48%) received radiotherapy. Among unirradiated women tumour laterality had little relevance to heart disease....
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- 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.06.016
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- Journal:
- Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
- Volume:
- 100
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 167-175
- Publication date:
- 2011-08-01
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1879-0887
- ISSN:
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0167-8140
- Source identifiers:
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166477
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- English
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