The Prominence of Heart-Sparing Radiation Therapy in Treating Breast Cancer

The radiation therapy field is getting its popularity and many physicians are recommending it for treating different cancers, especially breast cancer. Many women nowadays prefer to have safe treatment for treating carcinoma. The therapy is suitable for ductal carcinoma in situ and stage I, II, and III breast cancer. Heart sparing radiation therapy in Delhi is given to breast tissue and shows a decrease in the malignant tissues.

However, it has been seen that radiation therapy elongates the survival times and also maximizes the cure rates in women having early-stage cancer. The specialist constantly checks the exposure of radiation beams to heart tissue at the time of treatment. Heart Sparing Radiation Therapy in North Delhi is specially performed in the left breast because the heart is present just behind the left breast and rib cage. In case, if your heart gets exposed to the higher beams of radiation, then the risk of heart diseases also increases.

Thankfully, the present radiation treatments don’t show such effects as the amount of radiation dose is limited. Hence, the chance of having heart diseases through radiation therapy is not possible.

Methods involve in Modern heart sparing radiation therapy

Among many, there are some important techniques that are useful for women detected with breast cancer.

  • Breath hold

Deep Inspiration Breath Hold or DIBH is the latest method in which the patients have to hold their breath to limit down cardiac exposure to harmful radiation. Therefore, at the time of treatment, the patients are asked to take a deep breath for the reason to inflate the lungs and letting the heart tissues away from the heart. By this, the radiation exposure to the heart decreases to 60%.

  • Prone positioning

During the treatment starts, women are asked to face down on the special radiation table. By doing this, the breasts get exposed to radiation. By this technique, the breast tissues start falling off from the rib cage and it happens because of gravity.

  • Partial Breast Irradiation

Women who are detected with early stage breast cancer can opt for the treatment of Partial Breast Irradiation. In this technique, a portion of breast tissues gets exposed to radiation in spite of the whole breast. There are two basic methods involve in this –

    1. A method in which patients are given a high dose within a short period of time known as Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation.
    2. In the second method, a single dose of radiation is given at the time of lumpectomy, thereof known as Intraoperative Radiation therapy.

  • Three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy

The treatment is associated with a way of distributing the radiation dose in the breast tissue. Thus, the doctors completely control the traveling of those and prevent unnecessary deposition.

Conclusion

Heart sparing radiation therapy in West Delhi is getting popular among women to manage breast cancer. The services offered by Dr. Vineeta Goel have treated many women having breast cancer. You can expect safe treatment methods without facing side effects.

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