ArticleAdvances in radiation oncology2024
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure-Assisted Breathing With Supine Tangential Left Breast Radiation Therapy When Deep Inspiration Breath-Hold Radiation Therapy Was Ineffective or Unsuitable: Clinical Implications for an Affordable Heart-Sparing Breast Radiation Therapy to Reduce the Health Care Disparities in Low-Resource Settings.
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- Comparison of surface-guided radiotherapy-based deep inspiration breath hold and continuous positive airway pressure techniques in left-sided breast cancer: dosimetric and workflow analysis.Physical and engineering sciences in medicine · 2026Article
- Continuous positive airway pressure in breast cancer radiotherapy: Protocol of a prospective clinical trial.Clinical and translational radiation oncology · 2026Article
- Breast cancer patients with ipsilateral diaphragm paralysis: practical breast radiotherapy using continuous positive airway pressure-assisted breathing to spare normal organs.Technical innovations & patient support in radiation oncology · 2026Article
- Two breasts, one breath: continuous positive airway pressure for innovative heart sparing in synchronous bilateral breast cancer radiotherapy.Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) · 2026Article
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Abstract
Purpose: To report continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)-assisted breathing with supine tangential left breast radiation therapy (CPAP-RT) when deep inspiration breath-hold RT (DIBH-RT) was ineffective or unsuitable. Methods and Materials: Ten patients with left breast cancer underwent computed tomography simulation scan (CT-sim) under DIBH followed by CPAP-assisted breathing (15 cm H Results: Planning target volume (PTV) coverage was acceptable and comparable in all RT plans. Compared with FB, both DIBH and CPAP-assisted breathing inflated the thorax and increased left lung volume on average by 46% and 51%, respectively (FB: 1230 vs DIBH: 1802 vs CPAP-assisted breathing:1860 cc, Conclusions: CPAP-RT provides efficient and practical heart and LAD sparing RT using simple supine tangential fields for Breast-RT or wide-tangential fields for Breast + IMN-RT when DIBH-RT was ineffective or unsuitable. With its easy accessibility and low infrastructural requirement, CPAP-RT can provide affordable heart-sparing left breast RT to reduce the health care disparities in low-resource settings.
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