Giulia Riva, Ombretta Alessandro, Ruggero Spoto, Annamaria Ferrari, Cristina Garibaldi, Federica Cattani, Rosa Luraschi, Elena Rondi, Nicola Colombo, Fulvio Lorenzo Francesco Giovenzana, Carlo Maria Cipolla, Mikolaj Winnicki, Martina Persiani, Fabiana Castelluccia, Massimo Sarra Fiore, Roberto Orecchia, Barbara Alicja Jereczek-Fossa
As a result of aging, the number of patients with cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) requiring radiotherapy (RT) continues to rise. The aim of this work was to evaluate RT-related malfunctions of CIED in a cohort of patients who underwent RT in our clinic from June 2010 to December 2016. We retrospectively analyzed 93 RT treatments in 63 patients with CIEDs. Patients were treated with 3D conformal RT, intensity-modulated RT and stereotactic RT. We collected clinical characteristics of cancer, models of CIEDs, total RT dose to tumor and radiation energy...
April 17, 2018: Medical Oncology