Medical Physics Seminar – Monday, December 7, 2020
Toward Enhanced Cardiac Sparing in Radiation Therapy
Carri Glide-Hurst, Ph.D, DABR, FAAPM
Cardiac toxicity is a major complication of cancer treatment and can occur during, shortly after, and even many years after treatment has been delivered.Long-term follow up of patients undergoing thoracic radiation has shown that radiation therapy may lead to radiation- induced cardiac toxicities, thus efforts to reduce dose to the heart and its sensitive substructures are advantageous. This talk will focus on opportunities for enhanced cardiac sparing using advanced treatment planning and radiation therapy strategies, with the overarching goal of providing tools and clinical feedback for mitigating cardiotoxic side effects from radiation therapy.