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  • Lung cancer radiation therapy poses cardiac risks due to the heart's proximity to the lungs.
  • Current planning minimizes whole heart radiation dose, but emerging evidence suggests substructure doses are more predictive of cardiac events.

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  • To review and consolidate findings on cardiac substructure radiation doses and their association with adverse cardiac outcomes.
  • To inform lung radiotherapy planning and establish dose thresholds for specific cardiac substructures, especially in high-risk patients.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic review of 32 studies published between 2017 and 2024, identified via PubMed searches.
  • Analysis of correlations between radiation doses to specific cardiac substructures and postradiotherapy cardiac events.

Main Results:

  • Radiation doses to heart chambers, conduction nodes, great vessels, coronary arteries, pericardium, and valves are linked to adverse outcomes.
  • Minimizing dose to the left ventricle, left atrium, heart base, and left coronary arteries (LAD, LCx) is recommended.

Conclusions:

  • Individual cardiac substructure doses are more accurate predictors of cardiac risk than whole heart dose alone.
  • Utilizing substructure dose constraints in lung radiotherapy planning can enhance long-term patient outcomes and well-being.