Treatment Planning Chapter 11-Thorax and Breast (Bentel)

The most commonly occurring cancer in the United States is

When an immobilization device is needed, it is best to first determine the _______, and then________.

It is important to reproduce the patient's position as it was during________.

Opposed anterior and posterior fields in the chest invariably cause a (higher/lower?) dose near the (cephalad/caudal) margin of than at the ______.

A lung boost is often delivered via_____

Treatment fields in the chest should be designed with_______in mind.

Tumors in the lower 2/3 of the esophagus can be boosted via_________

Aligning two points separated by a long distance (is/is not?) a reliable method to reproduce a patient's position.

In setting up opposed oblique fields to treat a lung tumor it is important to know_______.

The number of US women who will develop breast cancer is approximately one in ______.

The regional lymph nodes in breast cancer are:

In most breast treatment techniques, field matching is a problem between:

The couch angle necessary to avoid bean divergence from the tangential fields into the SCV field depends on the(list 2 things)

To avoid beam divergence into the tangential fields into the SCV field the (foot/head) of the couch is turned(towards/away) from the collimator(gantry).

To avoid beam divergence into the lung by tangential fields the CAXs can be separated by slightly(more/less?) than _______degrees.

Multiple adjacent electron fields to treat a chest wall recurrence should be considered ONLY if _______is available.

A boost is sometimes delivered to the tumor bed in breast cancer using

Cardiac toxicity from breast irradiation is __________.

The internal mammary nodes are sometimes treated in a separate field using an electron or photon beam or are_______;

The most important considerations to avoid radiation-induced pneumonitis is(name 3):