Robert W Gao, Trey C Mullikin, Khaled A Aziz, Arslan Afzal, Na L Smith, David M Routman, Kimberly R Gergelis, William S Harmsen, Nicholas B Remmes, Hok Seum Wan Chan Tseung, Satomi S Shiraishi, Judy C Boughey, Kathryn J Ruddy, Christin A Harless, Allison E Garda, Mark R Waddle, Sean S Park, Dean A Shumway, Kimberly S Corbin, Robert W Mutter
PURPOSE: To report oncologic, physician-assessed, and patient-reported outcomes (PROs) of a group of women homogeneously treated with modern, skin-sparing multi-field optimized pencil-beam scanning proton (intensity modulated proton therapy [IMPT]) postmastectomy radiotherapy (PMRT). METHODS AND MATERIALS: We reviewed consecutive patients who received unilateral, curative-intent, conventionally fractionated IMPT PMRT between 2015 and 2019. Strict constraints were applied to limit dose to skin and other organs-at-risk...
May 25, 2023: International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics