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ArticleScientific reports2025

Value of couch height-based positioning in postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy for left-sided breast cancer.

Zaichun Shang, Jian Chen, Ming Li, Binbin Ge, Jinjin Feng, Jianhua Jin, Jianting Wu, Hanzhen Ji, Kaiyue Chu, Xinhua Zhang

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Zaichun Shang *Department of Radiotherapy, Nantong Tumor Hospital, The Afffliated Tumor Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China. szc224822@163.com.
Jian Chen *Department of Radiotherapy, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China.
Ming LiDepartment of Radiotherapy, Nantong Tumor Hospital, The Afffliated Tumor Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China.
Binbin GeDepartment of Radiotherapy, Nantong Tumor Hospital, The Afffliated Tumor Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China.
Jinjin FengDepartment of Radiotherapy, Nantong Tumor Hospital, The Afffliated Tumor Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China.
Jianhua JinDepartment of Radiotherapy, Nantong Tumor Hospital, The Afffliated Tumor Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China.
Jianting WuDepartment of Radiotherapy, Nantong Tumor Hospital, The Afffliated Tumor Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China.
Hanzhen JiDepartment of Hospital Library, Nantong Third Peoples Hospital, Nantong, China.
Kaiyue ChuDepartment of Radiotherapy, Nantong Tumor Hospital, The Afffliated Tumor Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China.
Xinhua ZhangDepartment of Anatomy, Medical School of Nantong University, Nantong, China. zhangxinhua@ntu.edu.cn.

Funding

Nantong University Clinical Medicine Special Project 2022LY021National Natural Science Foundation of China 31171038Special Research Fund for Scientific Projects of the Nantong Health Commission MSZ2023033
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Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the value of positioning based on the treatment couch height in radiotherapy for left-sided breast cancer. Sixty patients who had undergone radical mastectomy for left-sided breast cancer were selected, with each patient undergoing positioning based on the treatment couch height (couch height group) and positioning based on the reference skin marking lines (reference line group), to measure corresponding positioning errors. Meanwhile, 20 of 60 patients were randomly selected, and the planning system was used to simulate the changes in radiation doses in planning target volume (PTV) and organs at risk (OARs) along with the changes in positioning errors in dorsal (increasing couch height) and ventral (decreasing couch height), respectively. Compared with the original plan, when the positioning error in the dorsal direction reached 3 mm, D

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Breast NeoplasmsPatient PositioningUnilateral Breast NeoplasmsAdultAgedFemaleHumansMastectomyMiddle AgedOrgans at RiskRadiotherapy, AdjuvantRadiotherapy DosageRadiotherapy Planning, Computer-AssistedBreast cancer radiotherapyDose distributionPositioning errorTreatment couch height

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PMID41258296
PMCPMC12630634

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