Klaus-Rüdiger Trott
(University College London Cancer Institute and Università degli Studi di Pavia)
18/10/2012, 09:00
Non-Cancer Effects
oral (invited speaker)
Contrary to historical concepts of the radioresistance of organs with slow cell turnover, the heart is one of the most radiosensitive organs in the human body. The risk of death from radiation-induced heart diseases is significantly increased after high radiation doses (>40 Gy in Hodgkin’s disease), after intermediate doses (<10 Gy mean heart dose in breast cancer) and after low doses (<1 Gy...
