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Fig. 4

From: Successful treatment with proton beam therapy for a solitary sternal metastasis of breast cancer: a case report

Fig. 4

Dose distribution of boost proton beam therapy in an axial field (a) and a coronal field (b). The patient received 20 Gy relative biological effectiveness (RBE) in five fractions of a sequential boost for the sternal metastasis alone to a total dose of 70 Gy RBE. The gross tumor volume was 16.21 cm3. The clinical target volume was 29.89 cm3, and the planning target volume was 70.96 cm3

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Journal of Medical Case Reports

ISSN: 1752-1947