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Dose received by the sentinel node volume during tangential radiation therapy to the breast
Silvia B Zunino1, Edgardo R Garrigo, Nestor C Garello
1Instituto de Radioterapia - Fundación Marie Curie, Córdoba, Argentina. szunio@latin-cancer.com
Abstract:
The dose received by the sentinel node (SN) volume during tangential irradiation was studied on 31 patients. Of the 50Gy prescribed to the breast volume 95% of the SN volume received from 6.9 to 27.5Gy. In 19 patients the SN volume overlapped with the tangential field deep side.